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The article bit misleading, almost suggests that software correctness is achieved by testing, while this is definitely not true. Just for the record, none of the other technical fields using testing for safety critical engineering products as the main solution to ensure safety. This is not too different for software components in mission critical use cases. There are several ways to build a reliable system out of unreliable parts (like combining 3 different units by the 2 out of 3 principle, etc.) but testing is just not the way. It is a nice to have thing.


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