From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney) Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better! Date: 1997/01/27 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 212668188 references: <5buodl$bci@boursy.news.erols.com> <32E2FEC7.2F7B@concentric.net> <5bvncj$gqg$1@A-abe.resnet.ucsb.edu> <32E47B4B.56D9@concentric.net> <6PI998tV3RB@herold.franken.de> <32E68D40.65EC@parcplace.com> <32E999AE.2F68@parcplace.com> <01bc0c4d$8a0108f0$c318b993@jarvisb> content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 organization: Estormza Software mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1997-01-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote: >On the other hand, it is quite possible to generate high reliability code >with no testing whatsoever. For more information on this possibility (which >often seems almost incredible to the test-debug crowd), read up on the >cleanroom approach to generating software, an approach in which the development >team is not permitted to do any testing! This is not quite correct. In the cleanroom approach, the developer is not allowed to do any *unit* testing. But testing is done - of the system - using statistically-based techniques. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Heaney Software Development Consultant (818) 985-1271