Functional tests using samples?

[Rob Jellinghaus <ro...@unrealities.com>]

When writing the initial functional tests, I wanted a test of deployment,
service invocation, and undeployment.  Well, the stock sample was just
*sitting* there....  :-)

So I actually now have a dependency from test.functional into samples.stock.

My question is, what do people think about this?  Is it awful to have a
sample that is also a test?  Personally, I think it's OK provided we limit
it to functional tests....

Or I could just move the stock sample into test/functional.  Still, it is
useful to have tests of the samples, to validate that they all work....

Cheers,
Rob