Re: Domian Validation (Re: 2.5.1 - intermediate bio stuff..)

Troy Benjegerdes
2001-12-18T06:39:53Z

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:12:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> >
> > Translation: Andre has been in a few too many ATA meetings and can't think
> > without using storage industry insider-speak ;)
>
> We know ;)
>
> > I only had a 6 months internship in storage, but I believe what he's
> > talking about are sound engineering principles.
>
> No. Sound software engineering principles is to design good interfaces,
> and make the low level code adhere to them.

Well, I may have mis-stated my intentions in the last email. What I want
to see is some mechanism and *code* to test these interfaces and verify
that the low (AND high) level code is actually adhering to the interface,
as well as attemp to isolate which side of an interface a failure has
occured on. I want fault isolation, and TESTING to make sure that any
fault we have seen in the past can be detected with easy-to run code.

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