On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:33:02 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: > >When the programmer thought that the program was ready, the boss would >give them an object deck for input. Most of the time there were S0C7 abends. > Search Google for "fuzz testing". I've long supposed the wastebasket was a good reservoir of test data. Or a load module with attributes overridden; might even exercise with an I/O error.
Also search Google for IBM's "Black Team". I like the idea that their vernacular said a test had "succeeded", not "failed" when it exposed a defect. That was their raison d'ĂȘtre. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

