comp.lang.ruby

Tom Cloyd

2/9/2009 6:57:00 AM

Ryan Davis wrote:
>
> heckle version 1.4.2 has been released!
>
> * <http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/sea...
> * <http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/...
>
> Heckle is unit test sadism(tm) at it's core. Heckle is a mutation
> tester. It modifies your code and runs your tests to make sure they
> fail. The idea is that if code can be changed and your tests don't
> notice, either that code isn't being covered or it doesn't do anything.
>
> It's like hiring a white-hat hacker to try to break into your server
> and making sure you detect it. You learn the most by trying to break
> things and watching the outcome in an act of unit test sadism.
>
> Changes:
>
> ### 1.4.2 / 2009-02-08
>
> * 2 bug fixes:
>
> * Fixed Ruby2Ruby dependency and Ruby2Ruby references (name changed).
> Reported by David Chelimsky
> * Fix bug #11435 where [:iter, [:call], ...] would cause an endless
> loop. Reported by Thomas Preymesser.
>
> * <http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/sea...
> * <http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/...
>
>
>
Ryan, it's not entirely clear to me that "eval" is evil, but you sure
are! Ha!

What a wonderful idea you have here...

t.

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