13 Testing and debugging
This chapter covers
- Avoiding runtime errors by moving them to compile-time
- Understanding the benefits of pure functions in unit testing
- Automatically generating test cases for pure functions
- Testing code by comparing against existing solutions
- Testing monad-based concurrent systems
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Therefore, it’s more important than ever that the software we write is correct: that it does exactly what it should and doesn’t contain bugs. Although this sounds like a no-brainer—because who in their right mind ...
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