There have been a LOT of posts about testing and debugging - practices, reversing, and programming can do some aspects, but are vague about it.
There have been a LOT of posts about testing and debugging - practices, reversing, and programming can do some aspects, but are vague about it.
It is so.
I’d like to see something like “testing - debugging, correctness, reliability”, because I’d like it to cover debugging stories (which are not quite
reversing) and tools like types/contracts/dependent types that approach formalizing invariants. I have been meaning to make exactly this meta post for a few weeks but haven’t had the time to make a list of stories the tag would apply to as @jcs asked for somewhere.Type systems and their use as limiters seems a bit out of scope of the desired tag to me - and types seem covered by
compsci, as I haven’t seen a lot that needs breaking done.I see them as different approaches to solving the problem of basic correctness and ensuring reliability. Tests are run-time, types are compile-time. Tests let you say “there exists”, types let you say “for all”. They’re borth about providing guarantees before prod.