On 25. sep. 2006, at 23.47, David B Funk wrote:
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Frode Nordahl wrote:
No test suite can ever cover all those corner cases that a program
will be subject to. They will probably help weeding out the
relatively obvious problems, but "new" problems like this one will
not be avoided the first time they occur. Having a test for it in
place will of course avoid the same bug appearing in a future
release.
I think it would really help to announce and release a beta or
release candidate some time before the release, as this most
certainly will make more people test and hopefully find more of these
problems before the final release hits the press.
--
Frode Nordahl
Um, the first 2006-DEV snapshot that I ran was from Jan 11, the last
one was Sept 9. So there were 8 months of snapshots available
for testing.
Yes, but I am not aware of any form of announcement of them being
there. Just having an archive sitting on an FTP server will not
prompt broad testing from the user base.
It's just that the bug that I found didn't show up until I put it in
full deployment configuration.
This is unavoidable, but perhaps if a broader test cycle was run,
someone would trip your bug earlier.
--
Frode Nordahl
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