Rayson Ho <[email protected]> writes:

> I believe the bug existed in Sun Grid Engine for many years,

Well, the years since slot-wise preemption was added for 6.2u5.

> Another thing is that there are very limited ways to test GUI
> programs. A few months ago I attended an IBM Rational Functional
> Tester workshop, and the product suite has GUI testing automation.
> Keep in mind that even if the IBM product is free, GUIs are always
> harder to test than command line interface programs.
>
> (On a related note, IBM test suite seems to be focusing more on
> REST-based applications than the traditional X11 GUIs programs.)

It doesn't seem very relevant here, but fortunately there's assorted
free software support for testing X-based programs (with support in X
itself).  Personally, I'll take testing and debugging form-filling X
programs over complex distributed systems, even if they are Motif...

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