Separating test data and test logic is exactly how we have built our test infrastructure to satisfy the FDA; making clear test data that you can then query and report on gives you tons of nice features for free!
It also really helps you to properly model your problem by breaking things out into their simplest possible components, and makes porting to a new implementation a breeze; reproduce a quick test data parser and some simple case logic, and you're well on your way to having two totally matching, but also totally separate, implementations!
...all of this without reinventing Lisp, of course ;)
It also really helps you to properly model your problem by breaking things out into their simplest possible components, and makes porting to a new implementation a breeze; reproduce a quick test data parser and some simple case logic, and you're well on your way to having two totally matching, but also totally separate, implementations!
...all of this without reinventing Lisp, of course ;)