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It's a full-time job just keeping up with the new jargon, folks.
The following sentence appeared in a company-sponsored
piece on ATM testing and verification.
"The problem with conformance testing is that just because
two systems each conform to a specification does NOT
guarantee they will actually interwork."
(I agree with the sentiment, but there really was enough
room on the page to say "work together." Let's not even get
into rewriting!)
