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From: Mark Friedenbach <mark@monetize.io>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Going to tag 0.9.2 final
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 23:01:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <539BE538.9070807@monetize.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU402-EAS839A956B516EF0EA0D8E42C6140@phx.gbl>

Not when failure is defined as, e.g., extra text pushing a UI element
down such that the button the user needs to click is no longer visible.
You don't test that except by having a human being run through some
example workflows, which is presumably happening during the release process.

On 06/13/2014 10:58 PM, Un Ix wrote:
> Was joking, but isn't the translation process back-ended with runtime
> tests to ensure that any stray chars etc cause the application to
> fail?
> 
>> On 14/06/2014, at 1:49 pm, "Matt Whitlock" <bip@mattwhitlock.name>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Saturday, 14 June 2014, at 1:42 pm, Un Ix wrote: How about a
>>> prize for anyone who can spot any "malicious" strings within next
>>> hour?
>> 
>> I think it's more an issue of accidental breakage than any
>> maliciousness. One character in the wrong place in a language
>> bundle somewhere can make the difference between success and
>> runtime failure, and it may not be immediately apparent when
>> running in unaffected locales. This kind of problem isn't likely to
>> result in data loss (or money loss, where money is data, is in
>> Bitcoin), but it could be enough to necessitate scrapping the whole
>> release, which would look bad and prompt users to question the dev
>> team's quality control process.
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-14  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-13 10:18 [Bitcoin-development] Going to tag 0.9.2 final Wladimir
2014-06-13 11:21 ` Pavel Janík
2014-06-13 11:58   ` Wladimir
2014-06-13 12:02     ` Pavel Janík
2014-06-13 19:24 ` xor
2014-06-13 20:06   ` Matt Whitlock
2014-06-13 20:12   ` Jeff Garzik
2014-06-14  5:28     ` Wladimir
2014-06-14  5:42       ` Un Ix
2014-06-14  5:49         ` Matt Whitlock
2014-06-14  5:58           ` Un Ix
2014-06-14  6:01             ` Mark Friedenbach [this message]
2014-06-14  6:12             ` Wladimir
2014-06-14  6:23         ` Wladimir

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