thread: 2006-02-20 : Open House: Ask a Frequent Question, pt 2
On 2006-04-02, Vincent wrote:
NS: Is it worth testing pieces of a system in isolation without the context of the complete system?
Sure.
Should the system be tested in stages of completion, like an image coming into focus, each stage expanding on the stage before but still complete in itself?
You can do it that way. I wouldn't say that you should, but you can.
Let's see. Dogs in the Vineyard, I was testing its resolution rules before I had town creation, but I knew I needed a good grabby situation, so I just made one up. That's the shopkeeper-whore-brother-nephew situation. I used it to test resolution, figuring that I'd come up with rules to create such situations once resolution worked, and that's just what happened.
That the kind of thing you mean?
This makes NS go "Exactly what I meant, thank you."
That sets my thinking in the right direction, but if you have any other examples (or links) that would be nice.
