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>Unless the work environment is to write short bits of doc about a
>product you've never used in a few hours, with the SMEs sitting there
>and staring at you the whole time, I'd say the testing environment
>doesn't even come close to replicating the actual working
>environment.
Historically I've argued in support of writing tests, but your post - the
quoted paragraph in particular - poses the best argument against such test
that I've seen. Well put.
Keith Cronin
<in Beavis/Butthead voice> heh heh ... Alan said "testee" ... heh heh...
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