Author: martin fierz
Date: 01:11:10 09/20/04
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On September 19, 2004 at 21:28:16, Uri Blass wrote: [snip] >There are cases that you can be almost sure of improvement in games based on the >result of test suites. > >I do not claim that you can be almost sure on improvement based only on more >solutions but when more conditions happen you can be almost sure that you have >an improvment. > >For example if you solve almost every position faster and not solve only more >positions and the only change that you did is in the order of moves you can be >almost sure of an improvement. for these things test suites are great. also for sanity checking your code after making major changes. for anything else, i wouldn't rate them too high. i'm using ECMGCP myself, but only to make sure things are still ok after a change. cheers martin
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