Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 01:22:11 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se> Cc: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Message-ID: <20021118010632.X14880-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <1037570442.1094.33.camel@skalman.campus.luth.se>
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On 17 Nov 2002, Mattias Pantzare wrote: > 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. > You are missing the point - testing does indeed find very large percenatge of bugs, esp. bad ones. Not all - just a quite large percenatge. If testing did not help, companies would definately have gotten rid of their test teams long ago. Testing - including dead boring regular testing - definately helps. But there is in practice no chance wahtsoever i fear that say -current would be in a state where one might say 'and now bound on it' in regular, say bi-weekly periods. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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