Swarm Testing Data Structures
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pfdietz
5 months ago
I've found swarm testing (random testing where the probability distribution is varied randomly) seems to provide better bug detection in testing Common Lisp compilers than just random testing with a fixed distribution, confirming results in the literature from testing C compilers.
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