Re: Regress?

[obair81 -at- comcast -dot- net]

Thanks to all who helped with answering my question.

The info below seems to square with their use of it.

Paul

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From: Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>
> Paul wondered: <<Could someone tell me what QA people mean when they 
> say that a bug has been regressed?>>
> 
> Probably they mean that the solution to the bug has passed safely 
> through "regression testing"--that is, that fixing the problem hasn't 
> introduced a whole slew of new problems. The etymology seems to be that 
> regress is being used in the sense of "moving backwards rather than 
> forwards." See, for example: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_testing
> 
> You'd think that after 40+ years of learning how to program computers 
> this wouldn't be an issue, and that programmers would have learned 
> (among other things) the difference between local and global variables 
> and local and global memory allocation, but apparently you'd be wrong.
> 
> I'm told by a credible but not unassailable source that this is why 
> Microsoft hasn't made any effort to fix the autonumbering bug in Word: 
> the underlying code that defines the data structures used to store the 
> information in a document is so deeply elegant (that would be 
> "seemingly cool but deeply flawed" in normal English) that fixing it 
> would be like pulling out the main load-bearing card in a house of 
> cards. You might still have a house left over when you're done, but 
> more likely...
> 
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