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Subject: Re: Testing a newer version a program against a previous is misleading

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 11:13:54 10/16/03

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On October 16, 2003 at 14:10:48, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>Testing a newer version a program against a previous is useless. Remember when
>we tested Fritz7 versus Fritz8 it gave us the false impression that Fritz 8 was
>NOT better, but when it was tested by the SSDF against other programs the
>difference was noticeable.

Or more general: Testing a program against a very small set of other programs is
misleading.

Sargon



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