I know it sounds a bit cheesy, but the trick is to make sure there are very few bugs in the product before you enter test. Try things like code reviews, spend time on removing defects early on in your process. Read a few books on how to achieve high quality programs. There are lots of books on software quality and process stuff, Rapid Development by Steve McConnel is one of my favourites.
Testing won't make a bad product good no matter how long you test it, you will only find lots of bugs. Testing a good (high quality) product will confirm that it is OK. Testing is a very inefficient way to find defects. Mind you that doesn't mean to get rid of testing!
This reminds me about a guy that each time he had to give his name to some company he would use their name as his initials. for instance if he would get something from AT&T he would register with them as "A.T.T. Smith" or some thing like that.
That way he could keep track of who was selling his details.
Running Linux on IBM mainframes in their virtual-machine "userland" is nothing new in itself (was noticed on/. way ago), but large production deployment is only possible with official support.
Which is available by IBM, have a look at the S/390 site
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I know it sounds a bit cheesy, but the trick is to make sure there are very few bugs in the product before you enter test. Try things like code reviews, spend time on removing defects early on in your process. Read a few books on how to achieve high quality programs. There are lots of books on software quality and process stuff, Rapid Development by Steve McConnel is one of my favourites.
Testing won't make a bad product good no matter how long you test it, you will only find lots of bugs. Testing a good (high quality) product will confirm that it is OK. Testing is a very inefficient way to find defects. Mind you that doesn't mean to get rid of testing!
Thomas
This reminds me about a guy that each time he had to give his name to some company he would use their name as his initials. for instance if he would get something from AT&T he would register with them as "A.T.T. Smith" or some thing like that.
;)
That way he could keep track of who was selling his details.
Maybe a good tip for the paranoid out there
Which is available by IBM, have a look at the S/390 site