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[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/30/2014 1:36 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> One good example is networking tests - if I worked on an airplane I'd love to
> not test tests that need connectivity with a simple regex.

I am suspicious that testing networks with a unit test is an inappropriate use 
of unit tests.

Unit tests should be testing individual functions. The "network" for those tests 
should be a mockup, not the actual network. A mock network:

1. can model extreme, unusual, perverse, and corner cases of networks, whereas 
real networks try to avoid that

2. will generate reproducible results


Testing networks should be more of a system test, not a unit test.