Sometimes Assertions
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What's most shocking about their whole website is how it goes to show how unserious the software industry is at large with regards to testing. It's not surprising when a good chunk of the programmers I know are vehemently opposed to "adding too many assertions", let alone something like this.
[1] https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html#testcase