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by dlsspy 5704 days ago
I don't believe I communicated clearly enough in the creation of this project.

This is not ``Yay, I don't ever have to worry about any other computer because I can simulate anything.''

This is me sitting next to my QA guy (who really understands what I did better than I do so far) and having him say, ``Why don't you just make it fast for the first ten minutes, then slow down socket operations briefly, then switch a pattern of speedup and slowdown on disk reads?''

I want to do more fault injection stuff. I'm being asked to do stuff like manipulate the data (sometimes), or lie about the results of certain operations.

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I understand your motivations better now. Being able to run these ad hoc tests in a repeatable manner isn't the same as firing up IE6 on a Pentium 4 box with 256MB of RAM.