Zeke - Testing may be done in two steps: (1) by the vendor, after the remediating the code and before delivering the code back to the customer, to make sure the job is accomplished, (2) by the clients to make sure everything will work in year 2000. Third party testimonials will not be good enough for many conservative, blue chip, institutions that want to see successful testing done under actual environment and claim y2k compliance with SEC and share holders. Clients will test the code in the actual operating environment. Some may be satisfied with off-site testing. That is their decision.
If the corrected code does not perform, the vendor takes it back and eat the costs of rework. Plenty of room for law suits in any one of the above steps. The short deadline does not give time to anyone for long, court cases. No CIO, no CFO, it's the CEO that is stopping the buck in many large companies. If mistakes are made in pension plans, finances, etc. there will be law suits. Just my opinion.
MERQ and CRYSF have testing tools, I hear. Ram |
