Swarm Testing Data Structures

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pfdietz · 3h 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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Swarm Testing Data Structures

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