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Excerpts from Clint Byrum's message of 2013-11-12 10:36:31 -0800:
> Excerpts from Sean Dague's message of 2013-11-12 10:01:06 -0800:
> > During the freeze phase of Havana we got a ton of new contributors
> > coming on board to Tempest, which was super cool. However it meant we
> > had this new influx of negative tests (i.e. tests which push invalid
> > parameters looking for error codes) which made us realize that human
> > creation and review of negative tests really doesn't scale. David Kranz
> > is working on a generative model for this now.
> > 
> 
> Are there some notes or other source material we can follow to understand
> this line of thinking? I don't agree or disagree with it, as I don't
> really understand, so it would be helpful to have the problems enumerated
> and the solution hypothesis stated. Thanks!

Thanks to all for explaining the motivations fully. I understand now, and
agree with all of the points made (including how incredibly frustrating
it is to come up with all of the conceptual ways to get errors back).