The importance of testing As we advance technologically, we depend on testing to keep us safe. New drugs have to go thru long expensive tedious trials. Cars have to be crash-tested. No we shouldn't, if only because someday a car or a drug might rely on software as part of a testing process. Or a moon mission, or your tax return.
Computers are everywhere.
We need to trust the people who make computers to have a high level of integrity. We want meaningful comparisons, and if a bit of software is slow or unreliable, we want to know before we bet our money or careers or safety on it. Caught in the act, Sun says this is just the way business works. They want to run the benchmarks well, they say. Right on, I say, but do it honestly.