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Re: Testing and OO was Re: Is it possible to use the value of the PROGRAM ID within t

Joe Zitzelberger

2004-06-25, 7:41 pm

In article <cbhq12$pg4$1@peabody.colorado.edu>,
"Howard Brazee" <howard@brazee.net> wrote:

> The more code is turned into a component, the less testing is needed -
> provided it stays as a component. I haven't found many bugs in CoBOL
> compilers, for instance. But testing still is necessary, and we have
> seen bugs make it to production even in highly tested OO code such as
> Windows. I have found more bugs in published routines in library
> type languages. In-house objects are more likely to have bugs in
> them yet.

Windows is neither 'highly tested' or 'OO'.

Unless you mean "highly tested" by the end users after the company has
released it as "producetion quality".

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