kaoudis on Nostr: Wandering into a slightly different sub-area of CS is fascinating. We seemingly have ...

Wandering into a slightly different sub-area of CS is fascinating. We seemingly have all the same problems and techniques but everything is called something different. As a security person with an engineering degree who has previously been a software engineer, for instance, I assumed “field bugs” had to do with improper input handling. I also couldn’t tell you what a mutant is or why anyone would want to kill one, before yesterday?! That doesn’t mean calling these things emergent behaviour or equivalent test cases is any more or less valid. It just makes it hard for us to talk to one another 🤔