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From: geoff@eagle_snax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Bugs in uwm/menuwm for SUNs
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Date: Tue, 31-Mar-87 08:24:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 31 08:24:18 1987
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Summary: Multivendor testing just requires $$$$$....

In article <8703290507.AA00924@CIROCCO.MIT.EDU>, treese@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Win Treese) writes:
> The problem that Jim faces in testing X is that one must verify that X clients
> from a variety of workstations are able, in fact, to interact properly with
> X display servers running on those different machines.  It is also desirable
> for X applications to compile and run properly without change on different
> workstations -- that is the problem that shows up with dereferencing NULL
> pointers on Suns that didn't appear on VAXen.
> 
> Performing such testing thoroughly means having easy access to well-maintained
> systems from many vendors.  That's the tricky part.
> 
We ran into the same problem at Sun: how to verify that all of the
NFS ports were interoperable. What we've done (twice now) is to hold
a "Connectathon" multivendor testing session a few weeks before the
winter Uniforum show, and get everybody's machine in a single room,
running NxN compatibility tests. Each lasts a week, and they've been the
most gruelling and exhilarating engineering experiences I've ever
had. All it took was $$$ from Sun to rent the space and multi-person-weeks
of energy from the NFS Consulting Group to get the test suites ready.
Plus, of course, the commitment of one or more systems plus engineering
talent from the vendors.

Now, who's volunteering to do this for X? Should be a lot of fun.....
-- 
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Geoff Arnold, Sun Microsystems East Coast Division (home of PC-NFS)
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