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libria on Feb 9, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems labs rewritten in Go

Another reason may be that it's easy to let students validate their work with the built in `go test`.

> Your job is to modify client.go, server.go, and common.go so that they pass the tests in test_test.go (which go test runs).

stavros on Feb 10, 2013 [–]

I wonder if it was would be easier (and legal) to just mock the functions so that tests pass, without writing any actual functionality.

nehan on Feb 11, 2013 | [–]

I don't think you could do this without actually solving the labs the way we wanted you to.

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