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Traditional testing covers only known distributions, and a tester must first imagine a bug in order to test for it.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“Importantly, you don't have to come up with these counterfactuals.”
“One big problem with traditional testing is that it only covers the distribution that you know.”
“To test for a bug,”
“you first have to imagine it.”Play from 1:07:05Report a misattribution
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