Glen wrote:
> So thorough testing would require ALL POSSIBLE hardware and software
> combinations. I do beta testing. I test on many platforms.
I've done DVT testing and been involved in beta test plans for
some very large High-Tech companies. If you do Beta testing then you
know that no one does the kind of exhaustive testing you claim in the
phrase "ALL POSSIBLE hardware and software". Not M'soft, not
Intel, not Oracle, not Dell, not HP, not Adobe ... none because it's
prohibitively
expensive as you pointed out in an earlier posting.
So instead companies test on "many platforms".
Because Intel tests each new stepping of their chips, as well as each new
model, that means that Oracle and others don't have to. It would be
silly for Legacy (even if possible) or any other software to be tested with
every possible combination of all possible hardware devices, let alone
all different versions of software, prom code, firmware releases, driver
releases, etc.
Thorough testing is NEVER the kind of exhaustive testing you specified.
It is instead testing on "many platforms" that one hopes to be
representative
of certain classes that are "interesting" -- perhaps because problems have
been found before with certain combinations.
It seems to me and apparently some others on this list that Millennia's
testing of Legacy should be more thorough. But it certainly is not
necessary
or even desireable to do the kind of exhaustive testing that you seem to
advocating as the only possible alternative to the current situation. It
also
seems to me that you are deliberately setting up a false Straw Man in
order to justify the status quo.
jr
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