On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:09:07 -0500, Simon Slavin
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> On 12 Nov 2010, at 4:25pm, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
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>> I think in general mathematical software like Sage is very difficult to
>> test.
>
> Yes, I read your response and agree with this. But it's worth pointing
On 12 Nov 2010, at 4:25pm, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> I think in general mathematical software like Sage is very difficult to test.
Yes, I read your response and agree with this. But it's worth pointing out
that commercial maths applications like MatLab /do/ have testing like that.
That's
On 11/11/10 02:32 PM, Simon Slavin wrote:
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> On 11 Nov 2010, at 1:41pm, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
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>> On 11/10/10 04:28 PM, Roger Binns wrote:
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>>> The SQLite developers decided their library will always be reliable and
>>> greatly care about data integrity hence the amount of testing.
>>
>> I
On 11 Nov 2010, at 1:41pm, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> On 11/10/10 04:28 PM, Roger Binns wrote:
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>> The SQLite developers decided their library will always be reliable and
>> greatly care about data integrity hence the amount of testing.
>
> I wish the Sage developers would take as much care.
On 11/10/10 08:58 PM, Samuel Adam wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:53:40 -0500, Dr. David Kirkby
> wrote:
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>> Someone recently said he felt that a test:code ratio of 1:1 is about
>> optimal, so
>
> Where do people get notions like this? Cf.:
I don't know. In fact, I
On 11/10/10 04:28 PM, Roger Binns wrote:
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> On 11/10/2010 05:53 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
>> Someone recently said he felt that a test:code ratio of 1:1 is about optimal,
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> That of course is bunk.
That was my feeling too.
> The optimal
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:53:40 -0500, Dr. David Kirkby
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> Someone recently said he felt that a test:code ratio of 1:1 is about
> optimal, so
Where do people get notions like this? Cf.:
: Someone recently said he felt that programmer productivity is about
:
On 10 Nov 2010, at 4:28pm, Roger Binns wrote:
> However some environments can not adequately run TCL to test SQLite which is
> why there is TH3 that does the tests in C. That C code is generated with
> control over how it is done as for example having it all done at once may
> produce something
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On 11/10/2010 05:53 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> Someone recently said he felt that a test:code ratio of 1:1 is about optimal,
That of course is bunk. The optimal amount depends on what the project
does, the resources available, the consequences of
Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but I read from
http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
that your test code is 647 time bigger than the database code. I've often
pointed developers of the Sage maths software to your link. I feel more
attention should be paid to testing Sage, and less to adding
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