398: Testing the Test

Coder Radio

The guys can't help but laugh when they hear the test tests one well-known online giant is testing. You might say they get a bit testy.

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• How We Ported Linux to the M1 — At Corellium, we've been tracking the Apple mobile ecosystem since iPhone 6, released in 2014 with two 64-bit cores.
• Apple Seeds Second Release Candidate Version of macOS Big Sur 11.2 to Developers — ‌macOS Big Sur‌ 11 included a ContentFilterExclusionList that let Apple's apps like the App Store, Maps, iCloud, and more to avoid firewall and VPN apps that users had installed
• Probabilistic flakiness: How do you test your tests? — While we use automated tests to detect regressions in product quality, until recently we had no means of automatically detecting whether the tests themselves were deteriorating.