Main points:
- standard software testing asks if we get the right answer to a particular problem
- an alternative is to generate random problems and try to infer problems
- this can more thoroughly test the space of problems
- random input testing can be fun
Presented 2011 August at useR!2011.
Going further
There is a bit more on this in Tao Te Programming.
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