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Some classes of bugs need specific tests to find, but I can catch a spelling error without specifically looking for a spelling error.

Similarly, bugs often crop up because of interactions which aren’t obvious at the time. Thus the reason a test is failing can be wildly different than the intended use case of a test. Perhaps the test failed because the continuous integration environment has some bad RAM, you’ll need to investigate to discover why a test fails.



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