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- From: lfd@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Lee Derbenwick)
- Subject: Re: Testing Complex Systems
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 22:14:58 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.221458.5093@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Aug31.135414.5265@linus.mitre.org>
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- In article <1992Aug31.135414.5265@linus.mitre.org>, troyer@mitre.org (Tom Royer) writes:
- > Given a real-time, embedded, distributed, asynchronous (and all those other
- > adjectives that imply complex and difficult) system, how does one go about
- > testing the resulting software product to make sure that it really works?
- ...
- > If you had to teach novice software engineers how to test such a system,
- > what would you tell them?
-
- I'd start them each off with a copy of Glenford Myers' book, _The
- Art of Software Testing_.
-
- Then I would wait for them all to come back and tell me that they
- can't test that system for all its possible faults in any finite
- amount of time, and what do I _really_ want them to do?
-
- -- Speaking strictly for myself,
- -- Lee Derbenwick, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Warren, NJ
- -- lfd@cbnewsm.ATT.COM or <wherever>!att!cbnewsm!lfd
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