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[Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 16, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Jonathan Lange wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Since my last thread of this kind led to such great news, I'm just going to
>> keep doing it.
>> 
>> Wouldn't it be great if our test suite automatically ran each of our utility
>> interfaces through:
>> 
>>    self.assertProvides(
>>        getUtility(ISomethingSource), ISomethingSource)
>> 
>> It's a pain to have to remember doing that for every utility, but doing it
>> quickly checks for a wide range of possible mistakes.
>> 
> 
> You don't have to remember if you are doing TDD and it's testing a
> behaviour worth having.
> 
> That said, ZCA probably ought to do a check like that on registration.

And slow the startup further?  I'd vote no.  This is something that historically has belonged in tests, and I think it should stay there.

Gary