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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/2/24 00:20, Hal Murray via Bloat
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">What does that say about the minimal collection of gear required in a test
lab?
If you had a lab with plenty of gear, what tests would you run?
How many different tests would it take to give reasonable coverage?
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<p>This is called "the modem testing problem" (:-)) The usual
answers are</p>
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<li>just my own brand</li>
<li>the most popular, plus mine</li>
</ol>
<p>That slowly leads to a series of failures in the industry,
followed by lots of mergers and acquisitions.</p>
<p>If one has a collection of hardware that have APIs, and a testing
mechanism that's also programmable, then you can do <i>line
coverage by exhaustion</i>, identify the failing configurations
Given a list of failing combinations, you can set up tests for
just them to run more often. <br>
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<p>As it's name suggests, the main test can take a while (:-))<br>
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<p>--dave<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:davecb@spamcop.net">davecb@spamcop.net</a> | -- Mark Twain</pre>
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