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Subject: Re: mclane's summer-tournament: round 6 update

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 11:56:41 09/08/98

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On September 07, 1998 at 04:47:28, Christophe Theron wrote:

>>But the improvements we make in any of these areas will always
>>show up in self testing.  Self testing is highly underrated,
>>probably because someone decided long ago that it was bad and
>>it got repeated too many times!
>>
>>
>>- Don
>
>You are right Don.
>
>I would add that self testing excels in helping you to decide if a change you
>are doing in the way you prune/extend the tree is good or not.


>My conclusion is that self test is a tool you must have, but you have to be able
>to identify situations where it does not work.

Ok- we all agree. You must use ALL kind of techniques. There is no ONE AND ONLY
solution to use... ok.
Than we can confirm... and close this chapter :-)

>
>    Christophe



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