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Why not write tests inline with code?

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Chris Devereaux has recently been reading up on “Literate Programming,” an innovative (and mostly unused) approach to programming developed by Donald Knuth in the 1970s. It got him thinking about new ways of implementing tests. “Well-written tests, especially BDD-style specs, can do a better job of explaining what code does than prose does,” he writes in his question. Also, tests “have the big advantage of verifying their own accuracy.” Still, Chris has never seen tests written inline with the code they test. Why not?

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Tests Cast Doubt on F.C.C. Restrictions on Kindle and iPad (Nick Bilton/Bits)

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Tests Cast Doubt on F.C.C. Restrictions on Kindle and iPad  —  The Federal Aviation Administration has its reasons for preventing passengers from reading from their Kindles and iPads during takeoff and landing.  But they just don’t add up.  —  Since I wrote a column last month asking why these rules exist …

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Case of 8,000 Menacing Posts Tests Limits of Twitter Speech  —  Even the Buddha of compassion might have been distressed to be on the receiving end of the diatribes that William Lawrence Cassidy is accused of posting on Twitter.  —  They certainly rattled Alyce Zeoli, a Buddhist leader based in Maryland.

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