On Sep 5, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Mark Wilden wrote:
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Jonathan Linowes
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That is, if my stories run with my well controlled, relatively
small setups, I'd like to ensure they run on a large, fully
populated, somewhat 'random' set of real data.
If you think there are situations where that approach will discover
bugs, then I'd agree with Ashley that you ought to define those
situations specifically in your tests. But if you just want to
throw a bunch of random data at them, then I'd expect your
discoveries will also be random. That wouldn't give me the degree
of confidence to make it worth the effort.
Are you maybe looking for performance testing?
///ark
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it just seems to me that while i'm running my tests on toy data
sets, it could be reassuring to see the same run on real production
data. Or, maybe not.
I agree its not real scientific, but neither is the weather... :)
(aka, shit happens)
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