Why not allow empty code blocks?

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Jul 24 23:28:53 EDT 2016


On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
>> so ultimately, it all comes down to testing anyway.
>
> All??
>
> There is a famous quote by Dijkstra:
> «Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs»
>
> Or if you prefer things of a more ‘practical’ (so-called_ nature:
> http://www.testingexcellence.com/reasons-automated-tests-fail-to-find-regression-bugs/

If testing won't find the bugs, what will? By "testing", I don't just
mean automated tests, although of course that's one of the most
efficient ways. Dogfooding is an important part of testing too.

ChrisA



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