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D. Richard Hipp has always been pretty up front about his business model. He provides sqlite for free, public domain, and does not typically entertain third pa
by liability 7y ago
D. Richard Hipp has always been pretty up front about his business model. He provides sqlite for free, public domain, and does not typically entertain third party contributions to keep the licensing clean. Additionally his business sells proprietary extensions and support for sqlite. Having that test suite uniquely positions them to do so, and due to this business model they expect to have the funding to continue providing a public domain sqlite to the world for decades to come.
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- liability 7y agoResp to deleted comment: sqlite is considered such because it's open source and well tested. That doesn't seem to imply to me that the tests are also open source. I don't think Hipp is lying about his proprietary test suite, so I just can't convince myself to lose sleep over this.
- quickquestion42 7y agoYes, fair enough. Note that I never accused anybody of not telling the truth. My point was about how useful sqlite can be as the posterchild example of a good test suite when we can't see the secret sauce. Not that it doesn't exist. I deleted the other comment because after reading yours I realised it was needlessly controversial. I think you're right in that SQLite can be considered an example of having a good test suite when looked at from a different perspective, just not from the point of it (the test suite) being open source.