[Biopython-dev] Unit tests for deprecated modules?

Frank Kauff fkauff at biologie.uni-kl.de
Tue Aug 19 13:44:03 UTC 2008


I favor option a. Deprecated modules are no longer under development, so 
there's not much need for a unit test. A failed test would probably not 
trigger any action anyway, because nobody's going to do much bugfixing 
in deprecated modules.

Frank

Peter wrote:
> Are there any strong views about when to remove unit tests for
> deprecated modules?  I can see two main approaches:
>
> (a) Remove the unit test when the code is deprecated, as this avoids
> warning messages from the test suite.
> (b) Remove the unit test only when the deprecated code is actually
> removed, as continuing to test the code will catch any unexpected
> breakage of the deprecated code.
>
> I lean towards (b), but wondered what other people think.
>
> Peter
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