[Maxima] Is integration and differentiation code sepparate?

[Stavros Macrakis]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:37, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:

> But I, for one, am not particularly interested in fixing bugs that
> are created by random tests.
>

It is actually possible to find important, non-trivial bugs by random tests,
e.g. this multivariable polynomial factorization
problem<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=696804&group_id=4933&atid=104933>.
 But it is usually a waste of effort to systematically check trivial,
unmotivated cases.  It requires some understanding of the underlying
mathematics or algorithms (white-box testing) to distinguish trivial from
non-trivial cases.  Usually it is the edge cases that are more likely to be
worth testing.

               -s
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