[tsegratis]

its the simple things

  fuzzing
  unittest
  scm
  code coverage

if youre programming without those, youre doing it wrong, and chatGPT isnt going to help

any more im missing?

[z33k]

Everyone hates hearing this one: Documentation, documentation, documentation. Programming is a social task. Therefore, everything else related to software development best practices branches off from that.

[throwaway2037]

What percent of developers do you think are actively using fuzzing? I would be shocked if more than 1%. Please do not read this as I do not think fuzzing is important! It is very important for system-level software.

[Joel_Mckay]

I often include valgrind tests before Beta releases, as it is usually going to point out suspect areas needing inspection.

Fuzzing is only really useful for a very narrow range of analysis scenarios. If people understand threading properly: code should be able to take getting hammered, exiting gracefully, and cleanly get re-instantiated.

Also, banning hosts/accounts with an error-rate quota system is more common these days. =3

[tsegratis]

many languages gracefully handle errors, making those errors transparent to automated detection -- our crashes are now silent correctness failures

this trend in programming culture reduces our ability to do automated error detection!

you make a good point, and a good case for crash early and crash often -- with choice of erlang style recovery, or fuzzing style hard nosed correctness enforcement