Date: 17 Nov 2002 23:00:42 +0100 From: Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Message-ID: <1037570442.1094.33.camel@skalman.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <058a01c28e7c$c1af5f60$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20021117160245.U23359-100000@hub.org> <058a01c28e7c$c1af5f60$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 22:03, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Marc writes: > > > Actually ... there is a difference between a > > developer stress-testing an application, especially > > one as complex as an OS, and real world testing > > ... > > That's why software companies usually have dedicated test groups. > > > How many developers have the hardware to > > continously pound in such an environment > > for 20 days straight until it finally > > decides to crash? > > Large software companies do, and that's exactly what is done. And they still won't find all bugs. Whe have found bugs in a big router verndors products that where so bad that we had to move some functions to a diffrent box in order to have a working network. They could not repeat that in the lab. Testing is good, but one has to keep in mind that it is very hard to simulate real loads. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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