On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 12:00 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Interesting. I have more faith in my own code than I do in others'. > You apparently trust others' works more than you do your own.
It's more that I see automated testing as being for the developer's benefit - so when writing code, it's essential to have tests a) covering as much of the code as possible, and b) passing reliably. That's important, because if I make a change and break something else, *I'm* the one who has to explain that to a customer. And that's not fun. When it comes to some random piece of software I don't code on, I'm judging things on different criteria. I don't care if gcc passes 100% of it's automated tests - I care whether it can compile all of the LFS and BLFS packages. Test failures don't matter to end users unless they represent bugs that actually affect that user. Simon.
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