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Rule 96: "Experience may be fine, but testing is better. Knowing something will work never takes the place of proving that it will." my motto: "It's only as go
by bengali3 12y ago
Rule 96: "Experience may be fine, but testing is better. Knowing something will work never takes the place of proving that it will."
my motto: "It's only as good as it has been tested to be"
I'm constantly reminded of this, most recently when I noticed my local Fire Dept doing checks on their specialty (gas powered) chainsaw tool every tuesday around 7:45am as I drive by on my commute.
- mcguire 12y agoSpeaking as someone who has worked for NASA and is familiar with "testing", that rule makes me a little queasy.
- differentView 12y agoCan you explain?
- mcguire 12y agoAdmittedly, I don't work on flight or science related things, but testing here means taking relatively cursory look at things so that you can check off items on a list. It's extremely happy-path focused.
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- pit 12y agoIt sounds like you're looking for Haskell.
- SilasX 12y agoObligatory: "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth