Testing

Testing and software correctness are different but related things. "Correct" software is proven true in some important sense, like seL4. Correctness is something our software culture still struggles to achieve. Testing is a process to demonstrate the absence of error for some inputs and previous state. It's a piecemeal process, where "correctness" is global.

I'm very fond of testing tools that use randomness or exhaustiveness to explore the state space of a program, since human beings are (and I am especially) bad at coming up with failure causing inputs for programs. Here's some:

• Automated property based testing for Rust (with shrinking)
• disorderfs
• Concurrency permutation testing tool for Rust