Duaine Hechler wrote:
On 11/22/2011 12:59 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Roger Luedecke wrote:
Part of the problem is people don't do early testing so we can catch bugs better before release. Everybody wants it stable, but few are willing to risk some instability to assure a better result for us all. I'm not sure we has any data to really substantiate that. At some point, I did sort of half-way propose we should be using a test-case tracking system, but given the size of this project, it's probably not a very good idea. 15 years ago I helped write and document about 1000 test-cases for a project I was managing. There was about 20 people involved in total, and even those 1000 cases were too much.
Well, back in my day on the mainframe, I wrote many, many "system" level utilities and short cuts for the operators all the way up to higher management.
I used what is called a "devils advocate" approach. As I was writing the code, I would take a step back and try to think of all the possibilities of how and where it would break.
Right - engineers/programmers/developers test to see that things work, testers test to break things. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (2.6°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org