From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Dec 14 05:56:36 2000 Subject: Re: some thoughts about the future of Octave From: Luis Alejandro Marquez Martinez To: "help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu" CC: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o?= Cardoso Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:55:19 +0200 Joćo Cardoso wrote: > While (numerical) code correctness is needed and a matter of concern, as > previously stated by John Eaton some time ago about accepting and > reviewing patches, "quality" is perhaps only meaningfull to computer > scientists or programmers -- or does exists an ISO-xxx for assessing it? ISO 9001 addresses this (more or less) and more software-specific recommendations are given in ISO 9000 part 3 : Quality Management Systems. In Europe exists the system TickIt (regulating organism in London) which complements ISO 9001 for use with software developement. The advantage of such approaches is that you obtain more clean, reliable and easier to mantain/upgrade code. > Numerical correctness, on the other side, puts an interesting question: > who is competent to establish its correctness on others than everyday > domains? Maybe, when a well-mantained ftp site will exist, it could have directories like ftp:///pub/.../octave/contrib/tested ftp:///pub/.../octave/contrib/useatyourownrisk ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------