On Sun, 29 Apr 2018 18:39:35 +0000 (UTC)
Martin Gregorie  wrote:

> - the test harness and list of tests *must* be written without reference
> to the code being tested and, ideally, *should* not be written by the
> author of the code to be tested,

 Sing it LOUD! The best code quality I've ever known in a project
was one where we did both of these things - the code and tests were usually
written at the same time, their first meeting was always fun. Doing it that
way made the tester and coder competitive which worked wonders.

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