From andrew@operationaldynamics.com  Sun Apr  2 06:13:18 2006
From: andrew@operationaldynamics.com (Andrew Cowie)
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:13:18 +1000
Subject: [Infrastructures] Testing general system functionality via
 user simulation
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On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 14:50 -0500, Marc Chiarini (Tufts) wrote:
> Does anyone know of any suite/testbed/infrastructure that would allow
> me to create "automated virtual users" that would run on real (or
> virtual systems), exercising various large subsets of software in a
> reasonable, if not realistic fashion?

"Reasonable if not realistic"

Isn't that what grad students are for?

:)

AfC
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