Too true. And, around here, our Q&A people appear to be "glitz" checkers
instead of "function and reliability" checkers. They have more people than
any other group and do less testing on the mainframe. They seem to check
mainly for "ease of use". That is, "can a totally numb skull still use
this?"

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> wrote:

> >As to run-away programs, they should be thoroughly checked on a test
> system before
> going into production; a run-away in production should be so rare as to be
> immaterial.
>
> What planet are you from?
> Programmers seem able to test everything except that one condition that
> will break in Production
> -
> Ted MacNEIL
> [email protected]
> Twitter: @TedMacNEIL
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