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A formal specification would be basically useless, if nothing guarantees that the reference implementation actually follows it. Sharing & contributing to the sa
by paavohtl 5y ago
A formal specification would be basically useless, if nothing guarantees that the reference implementation actually follows it. Sharing & contributing to the same test suite is a much more practical approach.
- quickthrower2 5y agoAs a smoke you can swap it in for a lot of the npm ecosystem and run the tests of those projects on the compiled code.
- andreypopp 5y agoSpecification isn't being followed is of course useless. But yeah, tests are definitely useless and in the absence of the spec is the only sane way to approach such rewrite.