On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 09:23:49AM -0500, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > TO be able to say "this package has no bugs" simply requires someone who > is very arrogent, either about their skill as a programmer (if they wrote it > ...as a nice quote I read once "All programmers are very humble...in private > anyway") or it someone arrogent of their testing ability. > > Always remember "Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology" : > "There is always one more bug" As well as that, always remember that testing cannot prove the non-existence of bugs. It can find bugs, but it can't prove that there are no more. I think the only way to show the non-existence of bugs is to prove the correctness of your program, which is probably intractable for any non-trivial program anyway. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, hamish@debian.org, hamish@rising.com.au, hmoffatt@mail.com Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
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