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Re: Starting pretest


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Starting pretest
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:22:22 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> The purpose of pretesting is to find more bugs.  There is no point
>> starting pretest sooner if we are already getting bugs faster than
>> we can fix them.

I believe this reasoning is flawed because the rate at which we can fix bugs
depends on many things which may all be (strongly) influenced by the
pretest itself:
- motivation
- amount of info about each bug
- number of outstanding bugs (determines the amount of parallelism available)
- ...


        Stefan




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