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From: kambic@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: separate SW testing newsgroup
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Date: 20 Dec 90 21:46:20 GMT
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In regards to the question of a separate newsgroup for testing, this 
would be a counterproductive move.  It is actually impossible to 
separate testing activity from development activity.  Consider putting 
software development within the framework of the scientific method.
Any hypothesis (spec, design, code, subsystem, system) is liable to 
verification before it becomes accepted as usable.  Up until then it 
is only theoretically valid.  Whether this verification comes from 
inspections, paper execution, design analyzers, testing, or actual 
use in the application (all subject to their own problems), is not 
the issue.  Any one of these items is a proposed solution until 
verified by experiment.  The fact that it works in the real world 
is important, not that it is proposed to do something.  

So I don't think you can separate the two, nor do I think that you 
want to.  Developers and testers are two facets of the same stone, 
with different but complementary viewpoints. 

GXK
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