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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.wanted
Subject: Re: Automated Software Testing
Message-ID: <79@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 13:40:26 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  9 13:40:26 1986
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References: <333@muddcs.UUCP> <470@lzaz.UUCP>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
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Summary: 

In article <470@lzaz.UUCP> dsl@lzaz.UUCP (D.S.LERNER) writes:

>"Testing is making sure that a program does what it is supposed to do"

I was taught that the purpose of testing is to find bugs in software.  Non-
trivial  code  is,  by  definition, too complex to be proven 100% bug-free.
Therefore you can't make "...sure that a program does what it  is  supposed
to  do.".  You can only find and fix as many bugs as you can and hope there
aren't too many more.

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