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Re:Ask HN: Why the Linux Kernel doesn't have unit tests? by hinkley on Friday November 25, 2022 @01:36PM (#33745392)
I think people have forgotten or indeed never learned in the first place that testing terminology borrows from physical device testing culture. A “fixture” for instance is a mock environment that you place a piece of hardware into to verify it.

Hardware testing takes up a pretty sizable portion of the development cycle. Why do we think we are special?

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Re:Ask HN: Why the Linux Kernel doesn't have unit tests? by wstuartcl on Saturday November 26, 2022 @12:45PM (#33754824)
kind of this -- I can't imagine any hardware company moving forward without fixture test flows of all sorts and a lot of effort put into them. It really seems like an area where software tries to stand on the edge of "art" forgetting that there is a science and craft needed when teams revolt against testing.
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