Re: C unit testing and regression testing

From	James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: C unit testing and regression testing
Date	2013-08-08 18:35 -0400
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On 08/08/2013 05:55 PM, Malcolm McLean wrote:
> On Thursday, August 8, 2013 9:33:15 PM UTC+1, James Kuyper wrote:
>> On 08/08/2013 02:49 PM, Malcolm McLean wrote:
>>
>> For my group, "adequate" testing has been officially defined as testing
>> that each branch of the code gets exercised by at least one of the test
>> cases, and that it has been confirmed that the expected test results
>> have been achieved for each of those cases, and that the test plan has
>> been designed to make sure that test cases corresponding to different
>> branches have distinguishable expected results (I'm amazed at how often
>> people writing test plans forget that last issue).
>>
> Your group might have officially defined the term "adequate testing". But
> most of us don't work for your group, and are unlikely to adopt the
> definition.

I made no claim to the contrary. As I said, it's a definition "for my
group", and I brought it up as an example of how  "it all depends upon
what you mean by those terms." The terms that James Harris used:
"simple", "adequate", "comprehensive", and "complex", are all judgement
calls - they will inherently be judged differently by different people
in different contexts.

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C unit testing and regression testing "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 17:46 +0100
  Re: C unit testing and regression testing James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2013-08-08 13:29 -0400
    Re: C unit testing and regression testing Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2013-08-08 11:49 -0700
      Re: C unit testing and regression testing James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2013-08-08 16:33 -0400
        Re: C unit testing and regression testing Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2013-08-08 14:55 -0700
          Re: C unit testing and regression testing James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2013-08-08 18:35 -0400
            Re: C unit testing and regression testing "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-08-09 07:34 +0100
          Re: C unit testing and regression testing Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2013-08-09 18:08 +1200
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