http://www.jilles.net/perma/2007/10/06/software-development-is-hard/ Insert witty tagline here Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:19:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.jilles.net/perma/2007/10/06/software-development-is-hard/#comment-564 Max Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:00:55 +0000 http://www.jilles.net/perma/2007/10/06/software-development-is-hard/#comment-564 No shit... That's the only reason why I use OpenBSD - no bload, but small and solid-build software. Generally, it's very difficult to write a stable state machine, let alone test it completely with 100% coverage. Actually, testing can be considered half-done once you know what to test ;) The main art is, of course, to build software that a) can be written correctly b) can be tested fully c) does what the user wanted... No shit… That’s the only reason why I use OpenBSD - no bload, but small and solid-build software. Generally, it’s very difficult to write a stable state machine, let alone test it completely with 100% coverage. Actually, testing can be considered half-done once you know what to test
The main art is, of course, to build software that
a) can be written correctly
b) can be tested fully
c) does what the user wanted…

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