Another blog item on testing.
This one asks whether the tests themselves should alter the interface of what's being tested. i.e. should the test have a back door for peeking into the black box.
My opinion is, emphatically, no. Not for the kinds of tests created while test-first programming.
An impulse to check on the internal state of an object while test-first programming is an indication of one or two things:
- The test is being perceived too much as "testing" and not enough as "designing".
- The object itself is probably too complex. Fix the design.
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