From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: [OT] Spirit - Software failure
Date: 27 Jan 2004 04:59:52 -0600
Date: 2004-01-27T04:59:52-06:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: mailman.36.1075192268.2270.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
In article <mailman.36.1075192268.2270.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>, Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org> writes:
> How long does a test need to be to be "thorough"? Longer than 9 days,
> apparently :).
Ideally a test should put _more_ stress on a component that it would
undergo in actual use. It is often impossible to achieve that ideal,
but 9 days testing on a component that will get considerably more than
9 days use seems bad.
> I doubt using Ada would have fixed this.
Certainly not, but this is certainly relevant to the issue of management
shortchanging the non-programming tasks.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-26 10:15 [OT] Spirit - Software failure Jano
2004-01-26 10:42 ` Preben Randhol
2004-01-26 13:26 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-01-26 13:57 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-01-26 14:15 ` Preben Randhol
2004-01-26 23:17 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-01-27 0:40 ` Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
2004-01-26 14:13 ` fdebruin
2004-01-26 23:46 ` Robert A Duff
2004-01-27 4:24 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-01-27 8:30 ` Stephen Leake
2004-01-27 10:59 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2004-01-27 11:47 ` Preben Randhol
2004-01-27 12:30 ` Jeff C,
2004-01-27 12:41 ` Preben Randhol
2004-01-27 16:52 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-01-27 17:01 ` Preben Randhol
2004-01-27 13:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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