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I wrote about testing awhile back, and that generated a few responses from Ryan Lowe. Interestingly enough, one of the things we were discussing just bit me this morning. A little background first.
The engineering guys have been making the VW installer into a network capable installer - a really nifty thing, and something that will end up being part of our (eventual) support for auto-update. We are planning to deploy the net installer for use in downloading Cincom Smalltalk NC - the idea being that you could either download as you do now, or grab the installer and pull down what you need at install time. Bottom line, engineering whipped that up pretty quickly, and has been waiting for me to have a servlet that would allow for registration from the installer
Now, I already have the servlet used by the registration app. However, that servlet has some inherent coupling to the workflow of the online application, which would differ somewhat from the workflow of the client application - even though they both talk http. So I created a new servlet, and a test version (that stubs out some of the things that require server side access) for local testing. Well, one of those stubbings out - of something I thought "couldn't break" - broke.
So now I'm adding a few new tests to cover the stuff that "couldn't break". The good thing is, I'll have a more stable application at the end of all this.
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