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Re: Testing XML don't use xUnit

• From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
• To: ihe.onwuka@gmail.com
• Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:48:28 +0100

> I'm not sure what you think you might be missing because your previous
> response suggested you got it.
>
> As far as possible you want your tests to carry on working unchanged
> if the structure of the XML changes. That will not happen if your test
> cases expose Xpaths.

Examples please.

if I compare //title in the input, with //title in the output - how
will that not handle changes in the structures of the XML ?

I've happily used this technique on 2 large projects now (I'm pretty
confident in how it works : )


-- 
Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com

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