Re: regression testing

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 22 2001 - 09:47:18 EST


> Regression testing __is__ what happens when 10,000 testers independently
> try to break the software!

Nope. Thats stress testing and a limited amount of coverage testing.

> Canned so-called "regression-test" schemes will fail to test at least
> 90 percent of the code paths, while attempting to "test" 100 percent
> of the code!

Then they are not well designed. Tools like gprof and the kernel profiling
will let you measure code path coverage of a test series

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