Hardware take on software testing.
Donald 'Paddy' McCarthy
paddy3118 at blueyonder.co.ukNOTthisBIT
Mon Jun 9 05:24:42 EDT 2003
Terence Way wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:50:41 -0400, Paddy McCarthy wrote:
>
>
>> If software were tested like hardware...
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>
> What you're describing sounds a lot like IBM's Cleanroom: which as I
> recall had two broad principles: 1. Specify everything and hammer out
> flaws in review meetings; and 2. Rigorously track bugs (counted from
> the first time a file is compiled!), using random test data that
> matches the expected usage.
Ahah!
Its nice to get more evidence of these types of practices having been tried.
> Despite this, I wonder if the two can be combined: XP with cleanroom
> testing, resulting in peer-reviewed well-specified software with a
> MTTF quality metric. Hrmm.
Not sure on MTTF, but some set of metrics that allow you to at least
compare two separate developments.
- Paddy.
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