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Message: [QUOTE="Jerry Coffin, post: 3854783"] [ ... ] With a regression test, I can understand it -- but at least as I recall things, this was talking about working with developing new code, meaning: Right -- that was pretty much my point. [ ... ] Oh yes, that certainly arises -- but I'd rarely depend on simply not having written the code yet to ascertain that the test was checking for exactly what I wanted. Right -- as it happens, I've dealt with things somewhat on this order more than I like to remember. In my day job, I spend quite a bit of time evaluating documentation, especially to look at things like whether it's sufficient for somebody to be able to implement a specification. I've repeatedly had to deal with specifications that said what the code should do, but failed to specify how to handle errors. Sometimes it's failed to specify error handling sufficiently, other times it's failed to mention it at all. [/QUOTE]