Is it normal to cry when given XML?

[Rustom Mody]

On Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 5:38:12 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Mark Lawrence  wrote:
> > When the two young lads from the consultants I was working with back in 2000
> > found a bug with xml handling in the supplier's software I almost ended up
> > in tears.  Why?  They didn't bother reporting it, they simply modified all
> > their unit testing data to work around the problem, so when we got to
> > integration testing nothing worked at all.
> 
> See, that's not a problem with XML. That's not even a problem with
> unit testing. That's a problem with the belief that the most important
> thing is to have your tests pass. Sigh.
> 

I smell a PHB¹ in the wings...
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¹ Pointy-haired-boss