PCjr Telnet Server Test

[Chuck Guzis]

On 14 Sep 2008 at 23:12, Kuenzig Books, John F. Kuenzig wrote:

> There are lots of solutions for automating software testing out there.  
> I built in a past life a system (Hammer Technologies' Hammer) for 
> beating on voicemail systems over the telephone network so that these 
> systems could be load tested without 150 humans calling in at one time 
> (and believe me we did live tests in the early days on voicemail systems 
> just like that!!!).  Even patented a speech recognition approach to make 
> sure the voicemail systems were responding properly.

I recall a co-worker who had the reputation of being able to break 
just about anything, even if he didn't understand its function 
precisely--his mind just worked that way.  People like that are worth 
more than their weight in gold.  After you worked over your project, 
being absolutely certain in its bullet-proofness, it was ready for 
Ed, who'd usually manage to destroy it in about a half-hour.  He 
thought it was loads of fun.

The worst person to write test code is the person who programmed the 
application.  Unfortunately, most of us don't have the luxury of 
having extra people for testing.

Cheers,
Chuck