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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.unixware
Subject: Re: Unix for PC
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Date: 10 Dec 1994 18:47:23 GMT
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In-reply-to: lm@fubar's message of 8 Dec 1994 22:29:27 GMT
In article <3c81c7$h1o@fido.asd.sgi.com> lm@fubar (Larry McVoy) writes:
Nate Williams (nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu) wrote:
: C'mon Dan. Commercial OS software testing is completely different than
: free software testing in general. The reason Linux and FreeBSD have
I hate to burst your bubble, but I worked at Sun in the systems group for
a few years (and then in the server group). They had *no* regression
test other than the binaries that shipped with the OS. Since 5.x,
they use the POSIX test suites but those (were) are pathetic and
certainly don't cover everything.
I've worked with a certain very large software company and it is not
done like this at all. They do extensive testing constantly during
the development cycle, before anyone outside the company even sees it.
The commercial OS release mechanism is pretty similar to Linux. You send
out some alpha junk to a few sites and see what the reaction is. The closer
you get to beta the less you allow in. After beta only show stoppers get
in.
Maybe Sun does it this way. But I wouldn't say "The commercial"
anything, implying every company does it the same way, because that
simply isn't true.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com michaelv@iastate.edu
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
Working NetBSD ports: 386+PC, Mac, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4c, PC532
In progress: DEC pmax (MIPS R2k/3k), VAX, Sun4m
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