On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Tim Ottinger <tottinge@...> wrote:
Ah. I get it.
The way most of us handle it is to not worry about it too much.
James Grenning talks about all the electronics in your car that are only
there to allow diagnostics. He suggests it is no less a proper car for
having them in there, and in fact it improves the car-owner's experience
even though most car owners never use the diagnostic capabilities directly.
I think that's fair enough.
I agree in principle with Grenning, but there is a difference: the
diagnostics in electronics are not there to test the correctness of the
electronics design; they are there to check if the electronics is damaged.
A software equivalent could be the technique of sanitizing the data
structures in memory in a long-running server.
Matteo
