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+# Tests _for the testers_
+
+    cd nixpkgs
+    nix-build -A tests.testers
+
+Tests generally derive their own correctness from simplicity, which in the
+case of testers (themselves functions) does not always work out.
+Hence the need for tests that test the testers.