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If anything, security vulnerabilities are precisely the kind of bugs that easily sneak by unit tests.


Try reading my comment in the most sarcastic tone you can manage.

Unit testing for security vulnerabilities has been discussed to death on HN and is generally agreed that it doesn't work. Yet, every time there is any kind of vulnerability, a comment like mine shows up, except in ernest.


I propose a new name: a dijkstranbug. Kinda like a heisenbug except specifically for unit tests.




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