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by seanmcdirmid 28 days ago
The interesting twist here is that the test writer can also be wrong, the QA agent assigns blame when the implementation disagrees with a test case, and it’s not always going to be the implementation’s fault.

Makes me wonder if there should be problems for CS students where given a spec and an interface, but not an actual implementation, they write the tests instead.

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Had this issue at uni back in '08 (physics), my code did what was asked of it, but the auto grader didn't like it. Nagged the professor until he had a closer look and fixed the issue, and asked me to resubmit.