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| Newsgroups | comp.programming |
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| Date | 2015-07-28 05:20 -0700 |
| References | <hbf.20150727d459@bombur2.uio.no> <mp7oqm$ka3$1@dont-email.me> |
| Message-ID | <e0806006-7653-40e5-9dcf-04dd857dfb6d@googlegroups.com> (permalink) |
| Subject | Re: How to write a test with random usage patterns? |
| From | Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> |
On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 12:26:47 PM UTC+1, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> Find a way to express a test case as a sequence of bits
What test cases? What kind of testing is the OP trying to do?
> Then go round again, and again, and again.
Any convolution can be made to boil back down to just an encoding then a random number generator. But the problem remains that even that is senseless: to generate random test cases ("usage scenarios") one ends up encoding some state machine, not just a list of pure actions.
> Evolution in action.
Wishful thinking: not even for load testing one generates statements at random...
Julio
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How to write a test with random usage patterns? Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> - 2015-07-27 14:48 +0200
Re: How to write a test with random usage patterns? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2015-07-27 07:19 -0700
Re: How to write a test with random usage patterns? Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> - 2015-07-27 17:00 +0200
Re: How to write a test with random usage patterns? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2015-07-27 08:42 -0700
Re: How to write a test with random usage patterns? Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> - 2015-07-28 12:53 +0200
Re: How to write a test with random usage patterns? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2015-07-27 07:42 -0700
Re: How to write a test with random usage patterns? Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> - 2015-07-28 12:55 +0200
Re: How to write a test with random usage patterns? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-07-28 12:26 +0100
Re: How to write a test with random usage patterns? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2015-07-28 05:20 -0700
Re: How to write a test with random usage patterns? Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> - 2015-07-28 15:03 +0200
Re: How to write a test with random usage patterns? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-07-28 17:17 +0100
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