in reply to Re: Re: End to End testing
in thread Trojan Perl Distributions
If you ever get involved with designing a large system, then testing the interfaces is all you can do. The GEC Telecommunications project for designing a System X telephone exchange, took 3 days to do an end to end run. If we had ever had to install it elsewhere, doing an install test like that would been laughed at. As such we tested what went in was processed correctly and what came out met the agreed expected output, both for garbage and accurate data. It meant we could run the regressions tests on small parts of the system that could be slotted in when bugs were fixed, and we knew it would work within the whole system, because the interfaces were correct.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: End to End testing
by zby (Vicar) on May 07, 2004 at 16:56 UTC |