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1<!--#set var="title" value="Documentation for testers" -->
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3 <P>
4 A novice asked the Master: "Here is a programmer that never designs,
5documents, or tests his programs. Yet all who know him consider him one of
6the best programmers in the world. Why is this?"
7 The Master replies: "That programmer has mastered the Tao. He has
8gone beyond the need for design; he does not become angry when the system
9crashes, but accepts the universe without concern. He has gone beyond the
10need for documentation; he no longer cares if anyone else sees his code. He
11has gone beyond the need for testing; each of his programs are perfect within
12themselves, serene and elegant, their purpose self-evident. Truly, he has
13entered the mystery of the Tao."<BR>
14 -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"<BR><BR>
15
16I went on to test the program in every way I could devise. I strained it to
17expose its weaknesses. I ran it for high-mass stars and low-mass stars, for
18stars born exceedingly hot and those born relatively cold. I ran it assuming
19the superfluid currents beneath the crust to be absent -- not because I wanted
20to know the answer, but because I had developed an intuitive feel for the
21answer in this particular case. Finally I got a run in which the computer
22showed the pulsar's temperature to be less than absolute zero. I had found
23an error. I chased down the error and fixed it. Now I had improved the
24program to the point where it would not run at all.<BR>
25 -- George Greenstein, "Frozen Star:<BR>
26 Of Pulsars, Black Holes and the Fate of Stars"<BR><BR>
27 </P>
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