EByte Testing Starts From Bytes Written Down Before the Code

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A codec has a sneaky way of passing its own tests. If the decoder and the encoder share a mistake, say both read a count from the wrong byte, then decoding a file and encoding it again still gives the original bytes back. The round trip looks perfect and the format is wrong. So EByte’s tests don’t start from the code. They start from bytes that were written down by hand before the decoder or encoder existed.

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EByte Testing Starts From Bytes Written Down Before the Code