Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:18:21 -0500 | From | Scott Robert Ladd <> | Subject | Re: Testing: What do you want? |
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Jörn Engel wrote: > And another thing I have found to be good at finding bugs is a sick > mind. If you intend to crash a system and do just about anything a > normal user wouldn't, you will stress all the code paths that are > usually not tested.
I'll throw a couple big evolutionary simulations on one of my boxes, and see how Linux digests it. Lovely thing about stochastic code -- you never know what it might do. :)
I could put my wife on Linux. She's a brilliant woman of great talent -- and, alas, she is endowed with an incredible ability to wreak unintentional destruction on technology. She has accomplished some truly remarkable feats of software implosion -- sometimes, without touching the keyboard!
Let's put it this way: She got *really* angry at me once, and all of my systems (Linboxen included) REBOOTED spontaneously in reaction to her outburst!
Now that's what *I* call "stressing" the code!
-- Scott Robert Ladd Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com) Professional programming for science and engineering; Interesting and unusual bits of very free code.
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