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From: donm@margot.Eng.Sun.COM (Don Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Development vs Engineering
Summary: Test Execution is just a phase
Keywords: test bridge
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Date: 15 Oct 90 17:21:17 GMT
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In article <84754@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> William F Ogden <ogden@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>In article <2450009@hpfcmgw.HP.COM> gt@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (George Tatge) writes:
>
>   ....
>>1. Since there can be no engineering without testing to insure that the
>>product is safe and reliable, a software engineer must have access to
>>test equipment and tools.
>
>Actually quite a bit of engineering is accomplished without testing.
>You rarely see testing of a bridge or building or dam, for example.
>Safety and reliability are achieved by analysis, modeling and simulation,
>inspection during construction, etc. I'd say that the jury is still out
>on which techniques will prove the most effective for software engineering.
>
>/Bill

Let's distinguish between the test execution phase and the whole testing
process which includes requirements and design verification as well as
test execution itself.  

Also, I bet the first car over the bridge isn't the first of rush hour the
morning after the bridge is built.  :-)

Don Miller
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Software Quality Engineering
donm@eng.sun.com