From: truediogen@... (Vladimir) Date: 2001-12-20T07:08:09+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:29005] Re: John Roth dolt ( Re: A challenge to proponents of Unit Testing. ) rbinder@rbsc.com (Bob Binder) wrote in message news:... > Coverage of what? How do you *know* this to be the case? If you (or > anyone else) hasn't run a coverage analyzer, you're just guessing > about code coverage(toy problems excluded.) Why are you able to do > what Knuth and Kernighan (and many others) routinely fail to do? > > There are several freeware coverage analyzers. You can download > coverage analyzers with a 30 day try-before-you-buy license from many > leading vendors. Why don't you all get some *real* data to support > your claims? This wouldn't take more than a few hours: download and > install a tool, instrument your app, run your test suite, and see what > you get. Who knows -- maybe you'll be able to prove you really can > walk on water. Maybe they do not want to make their customers who buy XP metoring and books from them _a bit_ nervous because of uncertainity about the quality emebedded in software XP produces. Kinda blissful unawareness... ---- Best Wishes, Vladimir