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Re: GCC2 merging (was "native language support now available")
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Subject: Re: GCC2 merging (was "native language support now available")
- From: "Charles M. Hannum" <root at ihack dot net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:26:03 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: jbuck at synopsys dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com, gcc2 at cygnus dot com
> You mean overall testing. People in the software engineering community often
> say that such testing isn't very valuable. The kind of testing that's the
> most important in producing high reliability software is *unit testing*,
While it's true that component testing is not (AFAIK) done for either
system, even if it were, you *still* have to test the system as a
whole. Your specifications could be wrong.
And while it's true that it would be better if component testing was
done, that amounts to throwing up your hands and ignoring the testing
problem. egcs at least has a formal test suite, and does identify and
fix bugs using it. It's certainly far better than nothing.