From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-12-11T08:41:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28151] Re: John Roth dolt (  Re: A challenge to proponents of Unit Testing. )

----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Oliver <oliverb@hfl.tc.faa.gov>
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Subject: [ruby-talk:28132] Re: John Roth dolt ( Re: A challenge to
proponents of Unit Testing. )


>
> Joe,
>
> I'd just like to discuss the idea of (Mean Time Between Failure) MTBF for
> software.
>
> Firstly, software fails,  it just fails differently than hardware.  A few
> examples:

[snip]

Thanks, Bob. These were the points I wanted to make,
but you said it first (and better).

Hal