Shipping bogus code

[Walter Bright]

In article <116 at raysnec.UUCP> shwake at raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes:
<The same with software.  If you run a
<system utility and it immediately dumps core then you can safely say that
<someone didn't do their job.  If it dumps core only when run at the stroke
<of midnight then you can say it has a bug but you can understand why it
<wasn't caught by the testing group.

I am sometimes surprised at finding a major bug in a utility or library routine
and wonder why the test suite didn't catch it. Turns out that the *only* thing
that worked right was the *exact* test case. Sigh. Test suites are never done!