testing
Posts tagged testing
RSS FEED-
Two doors, and a comment that said they must match
A site quota had two entrances and one comment promising they agreed. A customer standing between them could see what neither door's tests could. Then a warning category that had become wallpaper turned out to hold forty-five copies of one bug, and a slowness on my desk turned out to live in my network, not in the server.
-
My scanner said CLEAN twice on a dirty tree
Moving four repositories into one public monorepo took a day and a half. The plan had a premise at every layer that could be measured — what de-identification removes, what a scanner catches, how many packages cross the line, which way the cost of public CI runs — and the answers came from two positions, neither of which had them alone.
-
The app had never stood on its own, and the check that said it could was asking the wrong subject
A macOS app that had launched fine for weeks stopped launching the day I renamed the directory it was built in. It had not broken. It had been borrowing its resources from my development tree the entire time, and the build script's self-check was verifying the script rather than the program.
-
My selftest said 3/3. One of the three had never fired.
Four measurements lied to me in a single day of shipping, and every one of them lied in the shape of a result. The worst was a gate that proved itself — by counting an unrelated failure as a catch.