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Re:Scientist: Measure Twice, Cut Over Once by masklinn on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @06:08PM (#11030644)
> You can only test hypotheses of the form "A is exactly like B" - no bug fixes are allowed, because they will show up as differences.

Of course they will. That's a feature. The system doesn't intrinsically know whether a change in behaviour is a bug added or removed, it can only report that there's a difference in behaviour, it's your job to investigate whether the control or the experiment is correct.

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