From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada95 to ANSI_C converter
Date: 1997/04/04
Date: 1997-04-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.860184524@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E840C7.LCr@thomsoft.com
Keith says
<<(I *like* nasty test cases)>>
The trouble with nasty test cases is that they can sometimes result in
implementors wasting huge amounts of time getting things right that are
of no possible concern to users. The old ACVC suite was full of such
things, and it is still quite often the case that we make a change
and it affects none of our user programs in our regression suite, but
it causes an obscure bug in some ACVC test. Equally, it is often the
case that a change blows away huge numbers of user tests, but the
ACVC hums merrily on with no errors.
Anecdotally (we really should collect data on this, we have the raw data),
we have the impression that the Ada 95 tests tend to track user programs
more closely. They are certainly much less full of "nasty test cases".
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1997-03-26 0:00 ` Ada95 to ANSI_C converter Nick Roberts
1997-03-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Craig Franck
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Arthur Schwarz
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Philip Johnson
1997-04-01 0:00 ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Philip E. Johnson
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Craig Franck
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-01 0:00 ` Tom Wheeley
1997-04-01 0:00 ` David Kristola
1997-04-01 0:00 ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Craig Franck
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-04-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-31 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-31 0:00 ` David Emery
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
1997-04-16 0:00 Dan Lehman
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-20 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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