----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Oliver <oliverb / hfl.tc.faa.gov> Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software.extreme-programming,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ru by To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org>; <undisclosed-recipients: ;> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 2:00 PM Subject: [ruby-talk:28132] Re: John Roth dolt ( Re: A challenge to proponents of Unit Testing. ) > > Joe, > > I'd just like to discuss the idea of (Mean Time Between Failure) MTBF for > software. > > Firstly, software fails, it just fails differently than hardware. A few > examples: [snip] Thanks, Bob. These were the points I wanted to make, but you said it first (and better). Hal