> From: Beach, Jim > In hind-sight it was painfully obvious. I have a lot to learn about > testing and debugging!
We all do. There is an entire, thick, book (a classical work) called "software testing" or just "testing", don't really remember any more, by, hmm, I seams to have forgotten that to :), Brezesinki maybe? That deals with the procedures around testing software. So it is defnitly not any "learn over the coffe break" or "20 steps to sucess" thing to learn. Nowadays I guess there are a lot of more books on the market, but this one was the first to seriously cover this topic (read: software engineering related problem child). Testing is supposed to be a formal automated procedure, which unfortunately is not true all the time. With debugging on the other hand, we got a slightly different story. It is a combination of skills and luck (intuition), which comes with experience. In short; it is a pure creative activity. Testing (which could be made formal) is a activity in order to minimize the dependency of being reliable on the lucky-part to do successfully debugging. However testing wont tell you were the bug is (it can be absolutely somewhere else), it just give an indication on what kind of direction you first might want to look into. Anyhow, good luck (you need it for debugging:) in your progress. -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
