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To: John Hunt who wrote (473)	8/31/1999 6:54:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) of 662

A Y2K Mystery: How Many Mistakes Are Going Unnoticed? << A growing number of companies and government agencies are claiming that their vital systems are ready for any and all Year 2000 dates, but life seems as hectic as ever for many Year 2000 technical workers in that advance guard. Managers continue testing on the assumption that at least minor flaws lie buried in some "ready" systems. Previously unknown Year 2000 defects keep popping up in commercial software. And normal activities like adding equipment or software carry the risk of inadvertently introducing bugs into systems that had been cleaned up and tested. "Everyone is testing and retesting," said Steven Kutnick, the Year 2000 project leader at the Northern Trust Company in Chicago. How many crucial mistakes are being caught by testing -- or missed -- has become a great Year 2000 mystery. Consultants and companies selling Year 2000 software-testing tools contend that repairs typically miss many date problems and introduce bugs that may or may not be related to dates. Some authorities, like Capers Jones, chief scientist at Software Productivity Research, a consulting company in Burlington, Mass., warn that testing fails to catch many defects. The Gartner Group, a technology consultant in Stamford, Conn., says it is common for independent tests to find errors lurking in 5 percent of computer code that has been altered during Year 2000 work and that the error rate reaches 15 percent in poorly run projects. Nearly two-thirds of those errors are serious enough to create faulty data or cause programs to crash, according to Gartner. >> ... cont'd at ... nytimes.com

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