Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Arnt Gulbrandsen
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 00:00

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homer_j_simpson@my-dejanews.com (Thandor)
> We're talking about end users here, not developers.

No matter; it's the same program.  If the program is scriptable by its
maintainers for debugging, it's also scriptable by end users.

> In the development of the above said program, yes, you may wwant to run it
> non interactively. But if it's well written, then you should be able to
> test the underlying code seperately from the interface, and then release
> the program with the nice interface.

This would be a grave mistake, IMHO.

"Test what you fly, fly what you test" is a good rule.  Test the code
you're going to ship, don't test "the underlying code separately" and
then ship the whole.

I agree that it's a good idea to test each and every subsystem using
its own test suite.  But that can only aid, not displace, whole-system
testing.

--Arnt

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From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/09/27
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