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Well, for some reason it doesnt let me respond to the child comments :(

The problem (which should be obvious) is that with a/b real you cant construct an exhaustive input/output set. The test case can just prove the presence of a bug, but not its absence.

Another category of problems that you cant just test and have to prove is concurrency problems.

And so forth and so on.



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