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Since this is related. I have a question:

How can they know that they have not broken something in their flensing without any automated testing since no tests is one of the big problems with OpenSSL?




I believe they are compiling the openbsd packages with it, so I guess it is a decent set to test against.


Ah, so compile openbsd packages against it then run the tests for those packages.

Sort-of-integration testing. Gotchya


Believe it or not, there are other ways to spot problems besides automated testing, which wouldn't catch every problem anyway (that's why we need human audits like the one OpenBSD is doing).

Yes, software existed before TDD and ADHD.

That's not to say tests don't help. If you are interested, why don't you contribute?




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