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Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:15:24 -0700
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@drdos.com>
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Subject: Re: starting with 2.7
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Alan Cox wrote:

>It isn't a good assumption that rate of change drives rate of errors and
>need for testing. It is one factor but the amount of review, the
>modularity of the code and the effectiveness of the management and
>verification tools are all involved greatly.
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Rate of change X 3 = Rate of testing.

Seems to apply in commerical software development, provided the testing 
engineers are brighter than
the developers (which in most cases they need to be).

:-)

Jeff

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