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Article #75118Re: Testing (Was: >Gnu *nix: The time for it is now!)
From: Joe Buck
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 1990 19:52
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 1990 19:52
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In article <GUMBY.90Nov6064031@Cygnus.COM>, gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace) writes:
> The fact is, testing is difficult and boring. Tests are usually
> tedious to write and often difficult to run. One reason big companies
> have a hard time getting software out quickly is the time it takes
> them to do regression testing and correction. That's why you get
> software with sheets listing "Known bugs." That hardly happens with
> GNU software because if they're known, they're fixed. But yes,
> usually many are not identified.
Hey, David, let's not claim what ain't so. It's simply not true
that "if they're known, they're fixed". It takes time to track
down bugs and be sure the solutions don't cause other problems,
and it's simply not true that no known bugs remain in code. It
is generally true that bug fixes are obtained faster with GNU
code than for many other tools.
--
Joe Buck
jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu {uunet,ucbvax}!galileo.berkeley.edu!jbuck
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,eaf0aab13e254cd4 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-11-06 11:52:17 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!shelby!apple!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!galileo.berkeley.edu!jbuck From: jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Testing (Was: >Gnu *nix: The time for it is now!) Message-ID: <39412@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 6 Nov 90 19:52:17 GMT References: <9011040255.AA23968@wubios.wustl.edu> <GUMBY.90Nov6064031@Cygnus.COM> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) Lines: 19 Posted: Tue Nov 6 20:52:17 1990