Not when failure is defined as, e.g., extra text pushing a UI element down such that the button the user needs to click is no longer visible. You don't test that except by having a human being run through some example workflows, which is presumably happening during the release process.
On 06/13/2014 10:58 PM, Un Ix wrote: > Was joking, but isn't the translation process back-ended with runtime > tests to ensure that any stray chars etc cause the application to > fail? > >> On 14/06/2014, at 1:49 pm, "Matt Whitlock" <b...@mattwhitlock.name> >> wrote: >> >>> On Saturday, 14 June 2014, at 1:42 pm, Un Ix wrote: How about a >>> prize for anyone who can spot any "malicious" strings within next >>> hour? >> >> I think it's more an issue of accidental breakage than any >> maliciousness. One character in the wrong place in a language >> bundle somewhere can make the difference between success and >> runtime failure, and it may not be immediately apparent when >> running in unaffected locales. This kind of problem isn't likely to >> result in data loss (or money loss, where money is data, is in >> Bitcoin), but it could be enough to necessitate scrapping the whole >> release, which would look bad and prompt users to question the dev >> team's quality control process. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
