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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