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Re:Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file by postalrat on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @12:49PM (#27437621)
How would you write a better test?

IMO most tests are fundamentally flawed. The way most testing is done it would be easier and better to just write everything twice, have a method to compare results, and hope you got it right at least once.

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Re:Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file by louisvgchi on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:20PM (#27441015)
I do think of tests as a kind of double accounting.
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