"Testing is Applied Epistemology"
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Claim: testing is applied epistemology, meaning testers use ways of knowing to justify software quality. The talk maps four Indian pramanas — perception, inference, comparison, testimony — to testing: sensory traps become blind spots and false positives, inference suggests defect hotspots, comparison uses analogies and competing products, and testimony uses expert models and heuristics. Concrete warnings include the green CI trap and treating a lone bug like a cockroach hinting at deeper issues.
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