Test-case reduction slippage (moving from one bug to another due to an insufficiently precise test): Impossible to avoid when you don't want it, impossible to trigger when you want to demonstrate it.
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Thanks! And yes, I agree. Slippage is both philosophically interesting and practically really important and not that widely known.
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More generally, my impression is that there’s startlingly little explicitly known about bugs, empirically or theoretically? Just folk-understanding. Almost nothing in writing when I was a grad student, and I haven’t heard of much since? Seems obviously extremely important…
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