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> Also, shouldn't these simple bugs be quickly and fully discovered by automated tests?

Do you actually believe this?

Tests are a nice first pass, but they'll never fully discover every bug -- especially with a huge change like this.



Exactly as painful as it might seem. Automated tests can only get you so far. Sometimes you just have to suck it up and dig into the code base.




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