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From: bnfb@uw-beaver (Bjorn Freeman-Benson)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: Re: quality software
Message-ID: <1874@uw-beaver>
Date: Thu, 16-Oct-86 13:17:02 EDT
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>>(d)	The software should be rigorously tested.  It is not enough...
>
>This is the whole point of beta testing. ...

No, no.  The software should be rigorously tested BEFORE beta testing.
Take an automobile as an example, would you beta test a new sports car if you
knew that they hadn't run it on the test track themselves?  What if they
forgot the a crucial part in the brakes?

Beta test is a crucial part of the release cycle, but it must not be the
only, or even only substantitive, testing that is done.  This attitude is the
software engineering communinty has got to change.

						Bjorn N Freeman-Benson