What are the details of the Knoxville proposed testing?

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Rick,

Could you please explain the details and probable effects of the testing that Knoxville, TN is going to do. I read something on this a few months ago and have heard nothing since. It was touted very highly if I remember right.

-- Anonymous, January 14, 1998

Answers

I spoke with Ed Medford, MIS Director at KUB about a month ago. Ed told me that KUB is only doing testing on their MIS systems - not an end to end (point of generation through distribution) system test. There was much speculation (particularly in csy2k) that KUB would be doing end to end, but that's not so.

As an aside, based on my discussions with many people in the industry, I believe it would not be possible to do end to end testing of even a small piece.

-- Anonymous, January 14, 1998


If it is impossible to do end to end testing, are we then looking at many unit tests and small interface tests hoping they work ok together? Then we really won't know until we get there if it is going to work?

-- Anonymous, June 23, 1998

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