Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 7/9/06, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Dan,
>>     I have to disagree with you on this. The testing should be done by
>> hand not by a script. That takes the educational value our and plus
>> gives a lot of false positives during a release cycle.
> 
> Something else I thought about later. Testing by hand is just as
> likely to produce false positives as a script. Also, a scripted build
> with well formatted output is more self-documenting. Ideally, both
> types of builds would be done to confirm each other.

I agree with you Dan.  The way to test the instructions is via a
scripted method.  However, the text needs to be checked for consistency
with the instructions and that is as important as the instructions.

When given a choice, take both.

  -- Bruce
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