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They both have their place. If you get a requirement wrong you can prove an incorrect system. In a complex system I doubt you can understand it from the requirements and so we should assume they are wrong. A test by constrast can (but need not!) be obviously correct but it is correct one for that case and so doesn't say anything about the rest.


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