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Item4051: Failing registration tests are wrong

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19:20:22) CDot: SvenDowideit: do we need those two tests? ShortPsswrod and NoPassword?
(19:20:43) SvenDowideit: CDot, i presume they were written to test some func
(19:20:56) CDot: SvenDowideit: yes, but that func is htpasswd
(19:21:47) CDot: the text reads "# This test is supposed to ensure that the system can reset passwords
(19:21:47) CDot: # for a user currently absent from .htpasswd"
(19:22:03) CDot: my question is, why would you want to do that?
(19:22:11) CDot: at the moment, it whinges
(19:22:23) CDot: the test is to make sure it doesn;t whinge, which sounds wrong
(19:22:44) SvenDowideit: dunno - i was looking at the password length one
(19:23:12) SvenDowideit: and it seemed to me reasonable that if you set twiki to have min length of 4 then it should refuse to let you have oe less than 4
(19:23:24) CDot: SvenDowideit: right
(19:23:31) SvenDowideit: and that one's failing
(19:23:36) CDot: so in both cases, the tests are testing the wrong thing
(19:23:41) SvenDowideit: huh?
(19:24:05) CDot: both tests fail because they are wrong, they are asserting something bad
(19:24:15) CDot: the tests need to be fixed, not the code
(19:24:15) SvenDowideit: ok, i give in, i dn't feel i can read the mind of the test's writer
(19:24:23) CDot: no, me neither
(19:24:23) SvenDowideit: i can only assume they wrote them for a good reason
(19:24:39) CDot: usually martin's tests make reasonable sense
(19:24:44) CDot: but this time....
(19:25:01) SvenDowideit: maybe he was testing how it was working
(19:25:08) SvenDowideit: to make sure it continued working that way
(19:26:09) CDot: well... maybe, but I think the fundamental supposition was based on TWiki having full control over users
(19:26:19) CDot: which is no longer the case
(19:26:30) SvenDowideit: mmm, actually, it is
(19:26:43) SvenDowideit: those tests are all for the TWikiUserMapping case
(19:26:56) SvenDowideit: and there, i fervenlty hope there is no change in func
19:27:34) CDot: they are both for resetting passwords; why should an invisible user be able to reset their password? doesn;t make sense
(19:27:58) CDot: and, as you say, the shortness constraint should apply always#
((19:29:14) SvenDowideit: CDot, your logic sounds inviting :)
-- TWiki:Main/CrawfordCurrie - 11 May 2007

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Summary Failing registration tests are wrong
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SVN Range TWiki-4.1.2, Fri, 11 May 2007, build 13693
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Topic revision: r1 - 2007-05-11 - TWikiUserMapping_CrawfordCurrie
 
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