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From: jcmo... Joe Morris
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:20

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"Stephen Fuld" <s.f...@worldnet.att.net> writes:

>This seems to be a good answer to the question someone raised a few weeks
>ago about how do you test an interactive, time-sharing operating system.  It
>also squares with my experience (so it must be right!) that stressing the
>memory allocation and swapping/paging systems brings out all sorts of
>othrwise hard to find timing related bugs.

Of course, *nothing* brings out the bugs like putting a system into
production...no matter how thoroughly you test for broken responses
to pathological conditions, some user will find a new way to expose
a failure mode.

Joe Morris

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From: jcmo...@mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.unix.tru64,comp.arch,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: checking some myths.
Date: 31 Jul 2001 13:20:59 GMT
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