Rev 2522: Exception testing review comments in http://sourcefrog.net/bzr/doc

[Martin Pool]

At http://sourcefrog.net/bzr/doc

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revno: 2522
revision-id: mbp at sourcefrog.net-20070712094950-tvvsyf0rf2d2m86d
parent: mbp at sourcefrog.net-20070712091115-uhg5zz3blan43m85
committer: Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net>
branch nick: doc
timestamp: Thu 2007-07-12 19:49:50 +1000
message:
  Exception testing review comments
modified:
  doc/developers/HACKING         HACKING-20050805200004-2a5dc975d870f78c
=== modified file 'doc/developers/HACKING'
--- a/doc/developers/HACKING	2007-07-12 09:11:15 +0000
+++ b/doc/developers/HACKING	2007-07-12 09:49:50 +0000
@@ -372,8 +372,8 @@
 fix for it, or if something works on Unix but not on Windows.
 
 
-Testing Bazaar
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+Testing exceptions and errors
+-----------------------------
 
 It's important to test handling of errors and exceptions.  Because this
 code is often not hit in ad-hoc testing it can often have hidden bugs --
@@ -398,7 +398,10 @@
 In some cases blackbox tests will also want to check error reporting.  But
 it can be difficult to provoke every error through the commandline
 interface, so those tests are only done as needed -- eg in response to a
-particular bug or if the error is reported in an unusual way(?)
+particular bug or if the error is reported in an unusual way(?)  Blackbox
+tests should mostly be testing how the command-line interface works, so
+should only test errors if there is something particular to the cli in how
+they're displayed or handled.
 
 
 Essential Domain Classes