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The author’s point is that shrinking can take a very long time, and that’s what you should consider turning it off. In my experience this is also true. They’re
by amw-zero 6y ago
The author’s point is that shrinking can take a very long time, and that’s what you should consider turning it off. In my experience this is also true.
They’re saying that sometimes it’s better to just see the error in full and try and figure it out.
- pfdietz 6y agoThat is not my experience (doing this sort of testing on compilers). In my experience, the shrinking is usually very fast. When it takes a non-negligible amount of time, debugging the failure would have been hopeless on the non-shrunk input. What takes the time in my case was simply getting a failure to occur at all. It might take days on a mature compiler before a failure occurs, if then. This would be millions of attempts.