Why is this important? If classes are really to be reused in confidence, they must be blatantly correct. The classes must be easily testable during initial evaluation by the client programmer. They must also be testable under different OS configurations, different compiler optimizations, etc. This means that testing modules must be constructed in a way which is recognized as correct and the modules must be shipped with the class libraries.
As soon as one major class library vendor starts to ship real test code with their libraries, all of the other vendors will be forced, by market pressure, to do so as well, or face market share erosion. Think about it. If you had to recommend a class library to a committee that was choosing a basis for the next five years of work, wouldn't you feel safer with a class library that could be auto-tested in your environment?
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