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From: marc@txsil.lonestar.org (Marc Rettig)
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Subject: Request for War Stories
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Date: 19 Nov 90 15:13:15 GMT
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Greetings, all.

Thanks to everyone that sent in war stories for the
first "Programming in Black and Blue." Together with
the column it accompanies, "Practical Programmer," it
appeared in the October Communications of the ACM.

I'm now preparing for the second installment. The topic
will be "testing." The column will discuss the question, 
"what is 'adequate' testing?" and describe an object-
oriented system that has built-in automated test 
procedures. 

For the Programming in Black and Blue sidebar, I'd
like to include stories of projects that had problems
with inadequate testing, no testing, bugs that snuck
through testing, unforeseen conditions that were 
overlooked in testing, bad management of testing,
and so on.
     
I promise not to publish anything without your permission. 
At your request, you and/or your company can remain anonymous. 

Serve the industry--spill your guts on the pages of 
CACM.

Thanks much,
Marc Rettig
Contributing Editor, Communications of the ACM

marc@txsil.lonestar.org
Compuserve: 76703,1037