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Testing a Business Rule Should Not Have Any Side Effects

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Testing a business rule should have no side effects. Avoid err.raise and msgboxes inside business rule tests.

Consider this example:

 public const kMinimumApplicantAge = 18  'declared in common modPublic Function IsApplicantAgeEligible(DOB as date, testDate as date) asboolean    If datediff(






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