Re: STAC on OR-HS (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Sun, 31 Aug 1997 02:37:56 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Jake Messinger shaped the electrons to say...
>I would think they need to release something immediately. Didnt anyone at
>Livingston even TEST the compression of the OR-HS before they put up the
>COM OS 3.7 for the OR? >

You can't test every feature in every build - period. No one does that.
You'd never have a release. Everything was ok in the test builds. Things
were rolled up, and the build was made. A typo got in. Shit happens.

Every time you make a build you can't go back and test every last feature,
let alone every combination. Even with automation it just can't be done.
Well, it CAN be - but not if you want to stay in business and release
anything on a realistic time scale. If a feature works and you don't mess
with it, you have to presume it still works in the next. Nothing was
messed with in the code, it was just a human error doing the build.

It would be as ridiculous as those who want us to test the PM-3 with
every modem out there, or even just every Sportster. Not realistic in the
least.

Anyone with development experience understands this.

-MZ

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