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Dear Sir, I kindly propose a two-phase project based on Test-Driven Development methodology, of which we are expert. 1. Specify and develop test harness. 2.
by CurtMonash 13y ago
Dear Sir,
I kindly propose a two-phase project based on Test-Driven Development methodology, of which we are expert.
1. Specify and develop test harness.
2. Develop program that satisfy tests.
- eliben 13y ago(1) is actually perfectly doable w.r.t. to this project, so I must be missing your point.
- CurtMonash 13y agoAny set of tests that fully exercised the desired functionality would be infinite. Any finite approximation would modify the task from an impossibly infinite one to something possible.
- eliben 13y agoNote that for a huge amount of software functionality, the amount of tests required to "exercise full functionality" is infinite, and very rarely can we mathematically prove that a finite set suffices. When code is multi-threaded, for instance, this tends to happen a lot.
- CurtMonash 13y agoYes. But I stand by adaption of the old sales technique "What does ____ mean to YOU? ... Oh, that won't be a problem."