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Frank Swarbrick

2004-06-30, 8:55 pm

This is pretty simple to do with batch programs, which generally take input
files and create output files and reports. Those output files and reports
can be compared easily. With online systems, not so easy (for me anyway).
Frank

Warren Simmons <wsimmons5@optonline.net> wrote:
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>For the slow learner, me, please itemize the steps in a negative finding
>regression test.


You run the old system and the new system. You compare their outputs and
find
them identical. 'Negative' means no difference.

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>Robert Wagner wrote:
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