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Any set of tests that fully exercised the desired functionality would be infinite. Any finite approximation would modify the task from an impossibly infinite o
by CurtMonash 13y ago
Any 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."