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Can anyone think of a legitimate reason why there needs to be 135,000 test ballots to begin with?
by lp0_on_fire 5y ago
Can anyone think of a legitimate reason why there needs to be 135,000 test ballots to begin with?
- mr-wendel 5y agoLots of reasons probably: - Scalability: how long does it take to process ballets to create the electronic records? - Error handling: there may be lots of permutations being tested (dark marks, light marks, `x` vs `/`, marks going out of bounds, etc) - Realism: being able to roughly represent what will actually happen in "live" mode and think through scenarios that limited test data won't highlight
- LorenPechtel 5y agoYup. One part of any such test has to involve a large load--I wouldn't want to certify something like that without testing it against a load at least as large as anything it's likely to encounter in a production environment. Long ago I spent *weeks* narrowing down a load-caused fault, then figuring out how to reproduce it with nothing but the operating system. (Cisco, it was completely irrelevant what software was throwing the load at your switch! When I reproduced it from the command line they accepted it was their problem and at that point it was between management and Cisco, I wasn't involved.)