
23: Ben Gamari
The Haskell Interlude
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How to Retrigger a Mutation GC Step
The trigger to bugs that you can reliably kind of try to retrigger the same bug after half doesn't commit later. That's actually something that recently we've thought a bit about again, because right now, actually, last year and into last summer, I had a student and she's still working on this. They tried to make some kind of API manifest and then generate a bunch of random calls to the API which have certain structure in order to kind of observe the behavior of some bigger system. And even if you don't know all the functions kind of hidden behind the API, you can still generate a whole bunch of traces and still maybe observe unexpected behavior or a desirable behavior or something
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