Re: starting with 2.7

From: Jeff V. Merkey
Date: Mon Jan 03 2005 - 12:09:55 EST


Alan Cox wrote:

It isn't a good assumption that rate of change drives rate of errors and
need for testing. It is one factor but the amount of review, the
modularity of the code and the effectiveness of the management and
verification tools are all involved greatly.

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Rate of change X 3 = Rate of testing.

Seems to apply in commerical software development, provided the testing engineers are brighter than
the developers (which in most cases they need to be).

:-)

Jeff

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