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Nigel Daley's BlogNigel's LawPosted by nidaley on July 25, 2007 at 02:30 PM | Comments (2)I test open source software that scales to thousands of nodes. In the course of my work, I occasionally hear from the project developers that certain test cases are "corner cases" -- that is, the test cases are covering rare or infrequent situations. Recently I was explaining this developer behavior to a colleague. I explained to him how I was weary of test cases being passed off as "corner cases" that didn't merit much attention. What I told him next he subsequently dubbed "Nigel's Law", so here it is:
The fringe, the boundary, the infrequent, the unlikely -- all occur quickly and often when operating software on large clusters with thousands of nodes.
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