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Re:Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with K... by salawat on Sunday December 20, 2020 @12:31PM (#25487916)
I"m a huge proponent of automate the crap out of your tests, but you also have to break out of the automating mindset to get at the better problems. People are not machines, and automated tests are machines verifying machines.

It's why I like having a few non-automators and program noodlers around.

Re:Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with K... by eecc on Sunday December 20, 2020 @01:25PM (#25488357)
Well, there’s something to humans - testers in particular, who seem to be wired like hackers rather that programmers - that is superior to any fuzzing or “QuickCheck” approach. It’s the intuition, the art of second-guessing the mental model of the programmer that authored the code under test. That’s why it’s such a shameful tragedy to waste human capacity on scripted tests, the human factor should be authoring the automation.