Royal Pain

Tim Writer tim-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Fri Jun 18 15:24:39 UTC 2004


Fraser Campbell <fraser-eicrhRFjby5dCsDujFhwbypxlwaOVQ5f at public.gmane.org> writes:

> 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 ;-)

Not true.  I think you can say with absolute certainty that it will fail,
probably sooner than you think. :-)

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