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- Submitted-by: amf@amfent.gwinnett.com (Andy Feibus)
-
- dave@88open.org (Dave Cline) writes:
- > It seems valid to argue against formal test method standards because:
- >
- > c) there is no mechanical way to ensure that both standards
- > say the same thing.
- Taking this a step further, a test methods standard may not provide
- complete or completely correct test coverage of a standard. Following
- from that (I hate the words "hence" and "thus" :-), a test suite based
- on the test methods standard may not properly test the actual technology
- it intends to verify.
-
- So, if a test suite is only an implementation of the test methods standard
- and the test methods standard may not completely or correctly test the
- technology, what good is it? Even better -- or, more confusing --
- how do we verify that the test suite is a complete and correct
- implementation of the test methods standard (which may or may not be
- complete or correct)??
-
- -- Andy.
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- Andy Feibus.
- Open Systems Today; SCO Magazine
- andyfe@utoday.com
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- Volume-Number: Volume 31, Number 16
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