On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>wrote:
> > Remember, in testing you are not trying to prove it works but rather to > demonstrate that it doesn't! > So in that way it's a bit like the the scientific method (or exactly like)? You create a hypothesis and design tests to invalidate your hypothesis... and if they fail to invalidate you may have a valid hypothesis. Simply replace hypothesis with program and you get the testing procedure? -Wayne -- To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t. - Primo Levi
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