[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #17749: Faster and phpunit runner-compatible unit tests

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#17749: Faster and phpunit runner-compatible unit tests
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 Reporter:  nbachiyski        |       Owner:  nbachiyski
     Type:  feature request   |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  3.3
Component:  Unit Tests        |     Version:
 Severity:  normal            |  Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:  has-patch commit  |
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Comment (by mrtorrent):

 I understand what you're saying, but this is bad code that should be fixed
 -- should have been fixed a long time ago. I'm really disappointed that
 the first contributions I've made to WordPress have been met with such
 reluctance, when I thought I was just chipping in a few small, non-
 controversial fixes that would help up the standard of the code.

 It seems like a fear of breaking anything, which comes from a lack of
 thorough test coverage to give people peace of mind when they make a
 change, and which would make WordPress a more robust piece of software.
 But that is being prevented by bad code like this which has been hanging
 around for a long time and was written by people who didn't know better at
 the time. And that was the point of this ticket in the first place --
 taking a significant step towards improving testing of WordPress by making
 some simple but important, non-breaking changes.

 If this isn't a top goal for WordPress at this stage in its life, then I
 don't know where your priorities could be. Manual testing and clinging to
 an aged codebase is not healthy.

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17749#comment:34>
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