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[Sander van Schouwenburg <sander@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wouter (and others),

After watching the database.new testcases and reading the PHPUnit 
documentation, I was wondering if sqlite (and postgresql) tests aren't 
too high level. The PHPUnit documentation suggests keeping tests as low 
level as possible, preferably on a single-method level. The sqlite tests 
however go as high as AnewtDatabase and SQLTemplate. Shouldn't those 
things be tested in their own testsuite?

Of course there is the problem where two things work fine separately, 
but when combined, cause an error. I don't know any good examples of 
this though.

Also you should watch out with inheritance. A base class can implement a 
method which works fine, and a subclass might *not* overload that 
method, it should still probably still be tested. That, or the base 
method should be tested well enough to account for variations in subclasses.

Any thoughts?

-- Sander