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Buggy code usually causes outright test failures rather than being silently exercised inside tests that still pass.

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software quality Whether a program is any good and how anyone would know: tests, review, debt, and what a suite cannot cover.

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  1. Russ Cox Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go…
    a passing test can still execute buggy code if the bug is data-dependent, or if the test is not sensitive to the specific mistake in the code. But a lot of the time, buggy code only triggers failures.

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