Royal Pain

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Fri Jun 18 15:05:13 UTC 2004


Fraser Campbell wrote:
> On June 18, 2004 10:28 am, James Knott wrote:
> 
> 
>>printer that I hadn't tested with.  I hadn't tested with that printer,
>>simply because we didn't have one of that model in the test lab.  The
>>cause turned out to be a conflict between the installation of two
>>applications and reversing the install order solved that problem.  When
>>you're doing integration testing of a complete system, it's physically
>>impossible to test for all possible conditions, to verify there's
>>absolutely no bugs.
> 
> 
> And if the "system" is Microsoft Windows then there's no hope in hell that you 
> can be sure of anything ;-)
> 

Actually, it was on Windows 95.  The problem didn't occur with NT or OS/2.

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