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| From | Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: error in code |
| Date | 2011-05-31 10:49 -0700 |
| Organization | None to speak of |
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Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> writes:
> On Mon, 30 May 2011 08:46:27 +0200, jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net>
> wrote:
>>Le 30/05/11 03:14, Geoff a écrit :
>>> I think I just spotted someone who doesn't use regression tests and
>>> who doesn't have a standard set of pass/fail tests for his compiler.
>>
>>Sure, YOUR regression tests catch everything, you never make mistakes
>>and when you do, your sophisticated tests catch them all.
>
> I never said my tests were perfect or sophisticated.
>
> Far from it. All programs have bugs. All compilers and regression
> tests are programs. Therefore all compilers and regression tests have
> bugs.
>
> It is the purpose of regression testing to catch bugs that were
> introduced since the last time the test was run against the
> application under development. No regression is perfect but if it was
> designed to catch an error it ought to catch the same error on a
> subsequent run. Unless the specification changed, in which case you
> would be modifying the application and the test, hopefully
> independently and using different algorithms for calculations where
> needed.
Ok, he had a bug in his regression test suite. Ideally, he should
have caught the particular error; he didn't.
It's absurd to conclude from that one data point that he "doesn't
use regression tests".
(I'm not sure why I'm defending jacob here; he's certainly not
going to appreciate it, and he'll probably accuse me of leading
the attack.)
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Nokia
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
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