Opinion — The Daily Archit, Sat, Oct 17

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From the editor’s desk

A back issue from the week the reviewers got tireless: Postgres slipped, a 37-year-old BSD bug fell, and the NIST seeds turned out to be ordinary. Calif's iPhone demo stays on the spike until there are details to print.

From the Stacksessays worth rereading

Testing beyond coverage

Benoit Baudry and Martin Monperrus show how a method can be covered by many tests and checked by none, and how to find these pseudo-tested methods. Postgres has just learned what tireless reviewers find in committed code, so it's worth asking what your green test suite actually verifies.

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