Subject: RE: [hackers-il] Is regression test suite really unimportant? (wa s: . . .)

From: Chen Shapira <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 15:47:58 +0200

> Other considratiosn:
> 1. If people find it easy to run a test suite, people with rare system
>    configurations would be more willing to help test the 
> software in their
>    special systems, so there is more confidence that the 
> software would
>    work in a future new environment.
> 2. A developer, who wants to modify an existing software package
>    (especially one with which he is not so familiar), will 
> have his job
>    easier if he can test quick and early his changes for any possible
>    adverse side effects.

3. There's no replacement for a testsuite written by the programmer who
wrote the code.
No QA department, no ammount of user testing, can ever replace the tests
written by someone who knows what's going on in the code and tries his best
to break it.