Re: Cultivating typographical terminology: regression tests -> proofs

[Juergen Reuter]

Hi,

"regression test" is a technical term that is commonly used in the field 
of software engineering; see for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_test

The emphasis lies here on testing across different revisions of a piece of 
software in order to ensure that bugs that previously have been fixed do 
not reoccur.  Hence the word "regression".

Greetings,
Juergen

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Heikki Johannes Junes wrote

> Hi!
>
> Is there some reason for using term "regression tests"?  There is a more
> accurate term "proofs" which is used in typography.
>
> If the latter term is preferred, I would cultivate it in several places
> in the Documentation.
>
> Greetings,
> Heikki Junes
>
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