[Cerowrt-devel] Fwd: [IP] To keep a Boeing Dreamliner flying, reboot once every 248 days A software bug again

[Aaron Wood]

code unit-tests with mocked clocks catch a lot of funky things like this.
But you have to either know to test a piece of code, or be disciplined
about testing _everything_ like that.  And it doesn't retrofit into
existing codebases well at all.

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:

> Somehow I really would like to be able to run a firmware's clock
> forward WAY faster and transparently to catch bugs like this.
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> Subject: [IP] To keep a Boeing Dreamliner flying, reboot once every
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