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Autonomous Testing and the Future of Software Development - Will Wilson

The Linux Foundation · talk · Watch on YouTube

Testing, debugging & developer toolsDistributed systems

What it is

Will Wilson explains autonomous testing: using deterministic simulation and fuzzing, building on FoundationDB's approach, to test software continuously. It sets out the ideas behind his later company Antithesis.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as an excellent talk on generalizing deterministic simulation testing, and Antithesis hiring posts link it to explain the work.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “I would encourage you to listen to Will Wilson’s excellent talk on the subject of Autonomous Testing”

    Excellent talk on improving software testing

    georgelyon, 2020-07 · Strong recommendation · in “Against Testing”

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Topics: autonomous testing, foundationdb, fuzzing, antithesis, distributed systems

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