We *really* need a development model change !

[Francois Gouget]

On 2 Jan 2002, Alexandre Julliard wrote:

> Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr> writes:
>
> >    I am not sure about using asserts. In the case where one calls the
> > same API ten times with different parameters, it would probably be
> > better to still do all ten tests even if the second call fails. This way
> > the developper debugging things immediately knows if just one aspect
> > failed or if its everything. If we call assert as soon as one item fails
> > we don't have the information of whether the rest still works or
> > not.
>
> Sure, it doesn't have to be the C library version of assert, it can be
> an equivalent that continues execution and only sets the exit status
> at the end.

   Kind of like my proposed 'test_failed(message)' function :-)
   I agree then.


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