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Written by Aurimas Černius on 2025-01-16 at 08:43

Programmers hate themselves. They adopted medical testing terminology, even though their tests are the opposite. Medical tests check for presence of disease, so false positive means disease is shown when not present.

Software test check for correctness of functionality. Yet, false-positive here means test failure, when the code being tested works correctly.

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Written by Mathias Hasselmann on 2025-01-16 at 09:06

@aurisc4 Citation needed.

I'd rather suspect the common origin of these terms in philosophy and/or statistics.

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