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Job & Hora 2024: "How and Why Developers Implement OS-Specific Tests"
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10664-024-10571-4 Among other things, the author finds that 56% of the 100 Python projects they studied have OS-specific tests, mostly targeting Windows, and that OS-specific tests are implemented mostly to overcome
unavailable external resources, unsupported standard libraries, and flaky tests. #nwit
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