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A comment on Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and writes in kernel memory. Parent comment

Re:Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and ... by gwbas1c on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:46PM (#16694821)
These kinds of things should be part of an automated test suite. Specifically, the kind of tests that were written years ago.

Honestly, Microsoft is really big into automated testing. I'm surprised this slipped through.

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Re:Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and ... by astrange on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:18PM (#16694968)
I don't think there are any OS kernels that practice test-driven development - most of them don't even have code coverage working. It's also very hard to test for a problem you haven't thought of yet.
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