Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: regression testing | Date | Thu, 22 Mar 2001 14:47:18 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Regression testing __is__ what happens when 10,000 testers independently > try to break the software!
Nope. Thats stress testing and a limited amount of coverage testing.
> Canned so-called "regression-test" schemes will fail to test at least > 90 percent of the code paths, while attempting to "test" 100 percent > of the code!
Then they are not well designed. Tools like gprof and the kernel profiling will let you measure code path coverage of a test series
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