On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:46 AM Jim Ingham <jing...@apple.com> wrote:

> Directly WRT testing.  I’m not against ALSO adding gtests when you add
> some functionality.  But when your change is actually adding behaviors to
> lldb, one of the things you need to ask yourself is if this is
> functionality that extension developers for lldb will benefit from.  If it
> is, then adding affordances in the SB API should be considered an essential
> part of a complete implementation of the feature.  And I assert from
> experience that writing tests for that feature at the SB API layer is a
> really good way to ensure that the API’s you add make sense and actually
> get at the things you intended to make available.
>

I also assert from experience that unfortunately it's also a good way to
make sure that the test doesn't get written in the first place :(
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