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dasil003 on May 14, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linux futex_wait() bug – update to latest patches ...

> It would be hard to get any sort of good coverage with unit tests, too, but that shouldn't be a reason to avoid trying.

Could a large but spotty unit test suite inspire false confidence that led to be being less careful about signing off on changes and thus decrease overall quality?

mburns on May 14, 2015 [–]

Could it? Sure.

Of course, kernel devs were already confident enough to merge breaking code without the added confidence of a partial unit test suite in place.

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