Stability of Squeak

Peter Crowther peter.crowther at networkinference.com
Tue Aug 14 16:09:01 UTC 2001


> From: Andrew C. Greenberg [mailto:werdna at mucow.com]
[...]
> Indeed, each and every computer program I have seen that does 
> something 
> non-trivial has bugs.  So far as I can tell, there are only 
> two kinds of 
> software: (1) software with bugs you know about; and (2) 
> software with 
> bugs you don't know about.  There are a few things we do as 
> programmers: 
> (1) development, which introduces both types of bugs; (2) 
> testing, which 
> converts bugs we don't know about into bugs we know about; and 
> maintenance, which converts bugs we know about into bugs we 
> don't know about.

Andrew, can I frame that and put it up on the office wall to point out to
[line and project] managers? :-)

		- Peter




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