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    What is "golden" data in your world view? Commented Jan 30, 2014 at 10:48
  • Can you clarify what you mean by "arbitrary input data"? Commented Jan 30, 2014 at 10:49
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    In order to test on arbitrary data you need a second implmentation of your software. If a third party implementation exists and is trusted, you can use that, otherwise there's zero point. Part of testing is making sure your assumptions were correct, so if you're just reimplementing those same assumptions in testing then you're missing a pretty big chunk. Commented Jan 30, 2014 at 10:50