Assorted Rants Tagged ‘Testing’, page 1:

Quote: “everything in the system should be a Finite State Machine (FSM)”

Another Quote: “‘OS’ is not understood as ‘OS kernel’, but rather is defined by the apps which can run on it”

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Quote: “low-end versions of the new OS should be lean enough to run on a ~1ドル MCU (these days ~=4K RAM, 32K ROM)”

Another Quote: “last N minutes of the life of the production program before crashing, should be replayable on my development box.”

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Quote: “Code quality tends to be Quite Bad(tm) when there is no unit testing at all, reaching maximum when there are 0 to 10% of the unit testing methods, and degrading afterwards.”

Another Quote: “It is quite easy to get past the optimum amount of unit testing for your project. And whenever your unit testing starts to affect your code in a negative way – you should stop”

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Quote: “Descriptive style takes its roots from the «chain» pattern, in which the methods enclosed in classes return some reference on themselves.”

Another Quote: “Business-driven testing or BDT allows non-technical members of any development team a stronger involvement in the development process by allowing them to comprehend test cases and even create their own. “

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Quote: “BTW, I don’t want to say that unit testing is pointless”

Another Quote: “I am arguing that changing design to enable testing should be avoided.”

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Abstract: Apparently, in practice there is big difference between cross-platform determinism and same-executable determinism, both in abilities they can provide, and from implementation complexity point of view

Quote: “Cross-platform determinism is the strictest definition of determinism I know; not surprisingly, there are quite a few factors which can break it”

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