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Testing Procedures:

Quartus Forth undergoes rigorous release testing to ensure that new features integrate tightly with existing code. Both regression and unit tests are performed.

While Quartus Forth hasn't been formally submitted for 3Com Palm Platinum certification, informally it meets all applicable requirements outlined in the testing guidelines. It successfully passes 1,000,000 Gremlin events in the PalmOS emulator with all debugging options switched on, and conforms with all described interface recommendations.

There is a single exception worthy of mention in section 7.2.4 of the testing guidelines: Quartus Forth, when re-started, doesn't restore the Forth system to its state when last exited, but rather starts up with a clean, kernel-only dictionary. This is a deliberate design decision; the Quartus Forth system state can be intricately involved with the PalmOS GUI state, and there is no reasonable way to preserve an unknown PalmOS GUI state between sessions.


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