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		lucianbr 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Servic... Guessing an ordering that will trigger a bug and exploring all orderings should both be basically impossible for non-trivial scenarios, no?

teeray 10 months ago [–]

Perhaps, but there is still some value in "capturing the bug with a failing test." If some ordering presents a defect, you can recreate it and prove that you've fixed the bug.

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