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Wheeler: Insecure open source software libraries?

Wheeler: Insecure open source software libraries?

Posted Apr 7, 2012 20:33 UTC (Sat) by gioele (subscriber, #61675)
In reply to: Wheeler: Insecure open source software libraries? by khim
Parent article: Wheeler: Insecure open source software libraries?

> now I must track and redo all the Q&A work every time some library gets the security update and Linux distributions stampede with fixes.

And that is not a problem because you have an automated test suite, don't you?


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Wheeler: Insecure open source software libraries?

Posted Apr 7, 2012 20:48 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

It's notoriously difficult task to write UX test suites.

It's possible to do some automatic tests, but ultimately it's not a replacement for Q&A, sorry.

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