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<sect1 id="testing-intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>
With more The Windows API follows no standard, it is itself a de facto
standard, and deviations from that standard, even small ones, often
cause applications to crash or misbehave in some way. Furthermore
a conformance test suite is the most accurate (if not necessarily
the most complete) form of API documentation and can be used to
supplement the Windows API documentation.
The Windows API follows no standard, it is itself a de facto standard,
and deviations from that standard, even small ones, often cause
applications to crash or misbehave in some way.
</para>
<para>
The question becomes, "How do we ensure compliance with that standard?"
The answer is, "By using the API documentation available to us and
backing that up with conformance tests." Furthermore, a conformance
test suite is the most accurate (if not necessarily the most complete)
form of API documentation and can be used to supplement the Windows
API documentation.
</para>
<para>
Writing a conformance test suite for more than 10000 APIs is no small