Posts Tagged With 'testing'
TL;DR: there is a difference between “is proven” and “could not be disproven”.
Let’s say you have a hypothesis A. How do you test it? By doing a set of experiments E₁, E₂, E₃, etc., observing their outcomes and comparing them against predictions made by A.
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Patterns of behavior around tests
There are patterns in why and how tests fail and pass, and what corrective
actions should and should not be applied by developers in response to that.
Here are some do’s and don’t s for different good and bad situations.
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TL;DR: Do not clump timeouts and other test failures together. Timeouts signal a problem with test harness design, not just a bug in the system it controls.
The software simulation field is unique in the following way. The input “data” our simulator program processes is actually “code” of some …
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