How important is testing our test cases ?

[arul meh]

I will appreciate if it is really important to write Junit tests for Junit Tests validity ?

[S Santhosh]

arul meh wrote:I will appreciate if it is really important to write Junit tests for Junit Tests validity ?

where do you stop then?

[arul meh]

Thats my question

[arul meh]

I am a novice in Junit Tests and would like to know - do we really write tests for tests ?

[David Newton]

You'd have to make sure the tests for the tests were working.

I'd never unit-tested a test case--that strikes me as weird. Don't get me wrong--test cases *can* be wrong, but you have to stop somewhere.

[arul meh]

Thanks David. I have to do this at work - so I was curious - how much it is important.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

David Newton wrote:You'd have to make sure the tests for the tests were working.

I'd never unit-tested a test case--that strikes me as weird. Don't get me wrong--test cases *can* be wrong, but you have to stop somewhere.

I have, but only on rare occasions. When I'm writing a generic test that is meant to be extended and I don't have any code to run it against. In this case, the test case is the product though, so I am testing the "real code."