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Outliners.com Message ID: 3334
Posted by srdiamond15
2005-05-25 18:15:01
It depends on the nature of the comment, don’t you think? If I’m evaluating whether the program is buggy or not, and I say it is NOT then certainly I’m obliged to say how much I used it and what tests I put it through. If I say it *is* buggy, it isn’t clear the same information is relevant. It doesn’t matter how long it took me to find the bugs, but only if they infect the program. I would, however, owe information on steps I took to find that the bugs are repeatable and not a function of other programs on my system.
Even more so, if I say, Program A lacks feature x, how long I used the program to discover this absence is completely irrelevant in most cases. But if I’m less than certain of the absence, I need either to qualify accordings or, better yet, enumerate the bases I did touch in making the tentative assessment.
Stephen Diamond