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The combinatorics of browser features described by the standards are not unit-testable in the scale of human lifetimes.

That having been said, if they didn't have a test for this situation before, I assume they do now. ;)




The combinatorics were written in code in a human lifetime so there should have been tests for it.


No, that's the problem. The individual items in the specification were written in a human lifetime. Full testing of the specification requires consideration of the power set of those items.

(I mistated earlier when I said unit tests. Determining if the right order of events is fired is probably a functional or integration test. And full coverage on those is the problem of covering the power set of features of a system.)




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