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Re:SQLITE: JSON1 Extension by adrianN on Friday February 03, 2017 @05:12AM (#13558867)
It is pretty well demonstrated that testing your software more reduces the number of bugs. That's why all safety critical software is required by industry standards to have complete test coverage.

Above a certain amount of tests it is maybe not the most cost-effective way to reduce defects, but arguing that testing is not the way to go seems misguided to me.

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Re:SQLITE: JSON1 Extension by sAbakumoff on Friday February 03, 2017 @05:54AM (#13558986)
Well, no one can argue that testing is imperative. It's just the numbers that SQLite exposed might suggest that their test coverage is above any reasonable limits )

> the SQLite library consists of approximately 122.9 KSLOC of C code. (KSLOC means thousands of "Source Lines Of Code" or, in other words, lines of code excluding blank lines and comments.) By comparison, the project has 745 times as much test code and test scripts - 91596.1 KSLOC.

Though again, I admire SQLite and use it my projects all the time.

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