>>You may have individually proven every algorithm, but interaction between algorithms and the event driven OS introduces more possibilities than can be reasonably proven.
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>Well said, and precisely my point. An example I use in my testing presentation (and CoDe article, IIRC) was created by Genford Myers (well respected testing author). The program had a few pieces of branching code, a loop, and that’s about it. Could be written in most languages in about 20 lines of code. Myers calculated that it had
100 trillion different code paths. A fast tester could test that in about a billion years. :-)
Hmmm...
that could really affect the product release cycle, eh?:-)
George
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