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> 3. DOCUMENT THE CODE’S BEHAVIOR There's been a trend of languages running code examples from docs as part of tests lately
Which really pushes that point forward, and has made me rethink what should be tested when quite a bit.
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e.g. Many new features to Diesel won't have any explicit tests other than the examples which appear in the docs
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It also helps enforce always having concrete usage examples of a function, which is a win in my book
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Huh, that's interesting. Does rust do that?
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Yeah, Rust and Elixir are probably the two most notable recent examples
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Good point. The design influence that crafting testable doc examples creates is really interesting. Have you found that?
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