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Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS?
From: Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>
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On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 22:03, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Marc writes:
> 
> > Actually ... there is a difference between a
> > developer stress-testing an application, especially
> > one as complex as an OS, and real world testing
> > ... 
> 
> That's why software companies usually have dedicated test groups.
> 
> > How many developers have the hardware to
> > continously pound in such an environment
> > for 20 days straight until it finally
> > decides to crash?
> 
> Large software companies do, and that's exactly what is done.

And they still won't find all bugs. Whe have found bugs in a big router
verndors products that where so bad that we had to move some functions
to a diffrent box in order to have a working network. They could not
repeat that in the lab. Testing is good, but one has to keep in mind
that it is very hard to simulate real loads.


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