15 Sep
2008
15 Sep
'08
9:48 a.m.
On 14 Sep 2008 at 23:12, Kuenzig Books, John F. Kuenzig wrote:
There are lots of solutions for automating software
testing out there.
I built in a past life a system (Hammer Technologies' Hammer) for
beating on voicemail systems over the telephone network so that these
systems could be load tested without 150 humans calling in at one time
(and believe me we did live tests in the early days on voicemail systems
just like that!!!). Even patented a speech recognition approach to make
sure the voicemail systems were responding properly.
I recall a co-worker who had the reputation of being able to break
just about anything, even if he didn't understand its function
precisely--his mind just worked that way. People like that are worth
more than their weight in gold. After you worked over your project,
being absolutely certain in its bullet-proofness, it was ready for
Ed, who'd usually manage to destroy it in about a half-hour. He
thought it was loads of fun.
The worst person to write test code is the person who programmed the
application. Unfortunately, most of us don't have the luxury of
having extra people for testing.
Cheers,
Chuck