My death test modifies some state, but the change seems lost after the death test finishes. Why?
Death tests (EXPECT_DEATH, etc) are executed in a sub-process s.t. the expected crash won’t kill the test program (i.e. the parent process). As a result, any in-memory side effects they incur are observable in their respective sub-processes, but not in the parent process. You can think of them as running in a parallel universe, more or less.
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