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		eliben on May 6, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008) Note that for a huge amount of software functionality, the amount of tests required to "exercise full functionality" is infinite, and very rarely can we mathematically prove that a finite set suffices. When code is multi-threaded, for instance, this tends to happen a lot.

CurtMonash on May 8, 2013 [–]

Yes.

But I stand by adaption of the old sales technique "What does ____ mean to YOU? ... Oh, that won't be a problem."

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