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Faults can be anticipated and tested using automated approaches.

Writing code to anticipate and deal with application or platform errors is one of the least enjoyable tasks faced by a development team. It isn’t particularly interesting work, and it doesn’t add to the features or functionality of the application. In fact, the code rarely gets executed; it runs only if something goes wrong. Users typically curse the error itself, and, by extension, the code that mitigates its effects.