diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) (10/29/90)
In article <116@raysnec.UUCP> shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes: |darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes: ||The same with software. If you run a ||system utility and it immediately dumps core then you can safely say that ||someone didn't do their job. If it dumps core only when run at the stroke ||of midnight then you can say it has a bug but you can understand why it ||wasn't caught by the testing group. | Agree completely. A somewhat different problem involves failure |to test components of a package already in wide use. The assumption is |that, if the package has been around long enough in enough hands, it's |*got* to be stable, right? Often true, but not always. I agree too. In fact, since this topic deserves to be discussed, I have redirected followups to comp.misc (which I read) rather than alt.flame. [Disclaimer: This is my opinion, not my employer's opinion.] -- Norman Diamond, Nihon DEC diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com (tkou02 is scheduled for demolition) We steer like a sports car: I use opinions; the company uses the rack.