[Thuban-list] tests for Daniel Cavelo's classifiers

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 11:13:17AM +0100, Moritz Lennert wrote:

> The main question I had was: should the tests only test for internal
> consistency of the code, or should they also check whether the algorithm works
> correctly, i.e. in this case whether the partition that is proposed actually
> is correct. The latter would then require quite a series of test cases, or ?

Consistency of the code is the first step
and an integration test would be nice, too.
Of course there can always be additional testing,
but having one test for each part of the code
and then an integration test usually is a very good start.
You then need to use common sense on what to do more.

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