Rethinking testing and risk within complex systems
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It argues that testing simple and complex systems pose very different challenges and that risk analysis must focus on interactions not isolated components. The talk lays out principles of how complex systems fail, recommends the Swiss Cheese model as a practical risk framework showing how aligned holes cause breaches, and insists test suites must exercise interactions and emergent failures rather than only unit correctness to find real-world gaps.
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