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Subject: Re: Beta -Testing Proficiency in Rebel Tiger Case

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 09:22:52 11/23/00

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On November 23, 2000 at 09:48:00, Harald Faber wrote:

>Beta tests will never show up all flaws and bugs a program contains.
>As well as software is never 100% bug-free.
>
>IMO, there are other things to test, more important, than to take a look if the
>prog can mate with B&N.

Harald:
What can be more important than to see if a modern program can or cannot mate
B+N? One more step and you say it does  not matter if a chess program cannot
mate in no way. IMHO, it is one of those basic features you cannot miss. Then,
is not a matter of asking tester to discover ALL bugs or voids, but at least to
check some esentials.
Worse: this is not a bug, but a VOID. Not something running badly, but something
that does not exist at all.
I believe the silence of Theron about this issue until now is a kind of
recognition this is something to be fixed very quick and not something to be
dispelled just like that..
Fernando
Fernando



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