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by xxs 1537 days ago
>And then you still have classloader, memory and thread leaks since you can't really prove they are absent unless you have 100% test coverage + load testing on every possible code path.

Those are trivially proven and diagnosed with memory dumps or even "jmap -histo"(incl. where the leak started). Zero test coverage for that needed. Some bugs were even in JDK where it'd start a new thread in a threadpool and copy all the CCL/Threadgroup/ACL and any inheritable thread local.