From: Mike Stok Date: 2006-11-03T22:29:23+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby programming best practice On 3-Nov-06, at 8:09 AM, Brad Tilley wrote: >> David Vallner wrote: >> >> By the way, testing can only show the *presence* of defects, not >> their >> absence. > > If it is not present, is it not absent? As long as you can guarantee that you are testing for all possible defects then I suppose that argument works :-) If there is a defect for which you don't have a test then testing will not show its presence, and it is not absent. Mike -- Mike Stok http://www.stok.ca/~mike/ The "`Stok' disclaimers" apply.