In rec.aviation.piloting Jim Logajan wrote:
wrote:
Have you ever known reliablility and correctness testing to be either
easy or cheap, particularly when dealing with life critical systems?
No.
I now think I probably shouldn't have entered this thread. My own ideas
about system development don't appear to agree with either the idealistic
and inexperienced/naive views expressed by Le Chaud Lapin or necessarily
with your hard earned cynicism. Well, cynicism doesn't quite contain the
nuanced meaning that your real position probably entails, so forgive me
that it doesn't characterize your full position.
I'm a bit on edge at the moment as I am deeply involved in testing a
system due to go live in a couple of days which if it goes tits up
will embarass a lot of people and cost me a lot of money and if it
works means a huge amount of follow on work.
So while test cases run I have a far amount of thumb twiddling time
to play USENET.
I think I might have argued from a different perspective than you, or at
least used a different set of arguments, not that I nessarily disagree with
your general thrust. I wouldn't, for example, have used some the anecdotes
you used - which for some reason bothered me, but in retrospect it isn't
like any of us get paid to insure every post is rigorously logical!
Exactly, not to mention the fact that anything past the most simplistic
of arguements and examples are going to fly right over the head of
Le Chaud Lapin.
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Jim Pennino
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