On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Frode Nordahl wrote:
> No test suite can ever cover all those corner cases that a program
> will be subject to. They will probably help weeding out the
> relatively obvious problems, but "new" problems like this one will
> not be avoided the first time they occur. Having a test for it in
> place will of course avoid the same bug appearing in a future release.
>
> I think it would really help to announce and release a beta or
> release candidate some time before the release, as this most
> certainly will make more people test and hopefully find more of these
> problems before the final release hits the press.
>
> --
> Frode Nordahl
Um, the first 2006-DEV snapshot that I ran was from Jan 11, the last
one was Sept 9. So there were 8 months of snapshots available
for testing.
It's just that the bug that I found didn't show up until I put it in
full deployment configuration.
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