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Write tests that pin real behavior instead of implementation details, config values, or lucky samples. Use when adding tests for new behavior, writing a regression test, fixing a brittle or flaky test, reviewing a test diff, or when a test breaks after a refactor or config change
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Write tests that pin real behavior instead of implementation details, config values, or lucky samples. Use when adding tests for new behavior, writing a regression test, fixing a brittle or flaky test, reviewing a test diff, or when a test breaks after a refactor or config change that didn't change behavior.
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Write Tests
A good test fails only when real behavior breaks, and passes through every refactor or config change that preserves it. Most bad tests fail the opposite way: red on harmless changes, green while the real path is broken. Every rule below serves that one goal.
Workflow: tracer bullets, not a batch
- Write ONE test at a time. Assert first, watch it go red on the un-fixed code, make the code earn green, learn, then write the next. Never a batch up front: a batch written against imagined behavior pins what you guessed — those tests pass when the mechanism breaks and fail when it's fine. Each green cycle tells you what the next test should actually assert.
- Iterate on the fastest focused runner (one file, one test name), and run the full suite only as a final gate before handing off. Check the exit code, not just the output — a runner that prints nothing and a green run look the same. On failures, read EVERY red test before fixing one; they often share a root cause.
- Before calling it done, prove the test can fail (below) and walk the review checklist.
What to assert
- Observable behavior through the outermost practical entry point — return values, exit codes, persisted rows, HTTP responses, rendered output — never which internal functions ran or how a value is computed. A test on the public surface survives a rewrite of everything underneath; a test that reaches into internals breaks on every refactor and pins implementation, not behavior. Reserve isolated unit tests for genuinely tricky pure logic (parsers, schedulers, state machines).
- Nothing the compiler already guarantees. A test that re-asserts a type signature — field shapes, rejected argument types — can only fail if the compiler failed first. Spend the budget on business rules, arithmetic, branching, ordering, edge cases, side effects.
- Actual values, not collection sizes. For dedup/normalize/idempotency
paths,
length == 1passes even when normalization is broken; also assert the stored value equals the expected canonical form. - The smallest scale that can show the behavior. Two entities and one mechanism before crowds and integration; small tests fail fast with readable state and don't entangle five behaviors in one assert.
- The design contract, not current behavior. When a test goes red, the reflex is to re-measure and pin the new number — resist it: a bar calibrated to whatever the code currently does silently encodes bugs as baseline. Write the assert from the stated contract and make the code earn it; if no contract exists, that's a question for the owner, not a number to measure-and-pin. Recalibrating is legitimate only when the contract itself changed.
- Deterministic claims tight, stochastic claims as distributions. An invariant that holds every run gets an exact threshold. Anything noisy or tuning-dependent ("A usually beats B", "load balances evenly") must be asserted over a set of runs/seeds as a band — a single-sample pin on a stochastic outcome is not a weak test, it is a blind one: it certifies whatever the lucky sample did and can mask a systematic bias for months. If you must assert a noisy differential, widen the margin and name it chaos-marginal in a comment.
Seams and mocks
- Don't couple tests to config — mock the seam. A test keyed to a live
config value (which flag is on, which tier is default) breaks when someone
legitimately edits config. The fix is never
skipIf/conditionals — a skipped assertion hides the coupling and stops covering the path. Feed the function fixed inputs, or stub the lookup so fixture ids resolve to fixed values. Litmus: "would this break if a config value changed with no logic change?" - Don't over-mock — every mock is a frozen assumption. Mock at the system's edges (network, clock, filesystem, third-party SDK, config lookup), never internal collaborators. Stubbing an internal hard-codes its current contract; refactor it and the test lies. Never make "was called with" the primary assertion when an observable outcome exists. Mocking three internal modules to test one function means: test one layer up, where they're real.
- Harnesses must wire the system the way production does. If a bug only showed up against a real environment, the harness skipped an input production always sets — fix the harness, don't just fix the bug.
Control variables and probes
- One variable per comparison. Pin everything else — same seed, same counts, same configuration on both arms; disable mechanisms that aren't the subject. When a comparison test breaks, first ask whether an unrelated mechanism leaked into the experiment before touching the code under test.
- Validate, don't assume. Never reason your way to a conclusion about cause — which path fired, where the failures come from — and act on it. Write a throwaway probe that reads public state and prints; the plausible story is wrong often enough to burn a session, and one probe redirects the whole effort. Probes are scratch: put them where they cannot be committed, delete them the moment the question is answered, or promote them into a real test if the behavior deserves a permanent guard.
Tests run on someone's live machine
A suite that grabs the desktop is a suite people stop running. Whatever the test needs, it takes the least intrusive form of it:
- Never take focus. No activating the app, no
makeKeyAndOrderFront, no raising, no moving the pointer, no simulated clicks into the session, no audio playback. A UI a person must not be interrupted by is still fully testable: build the window, drive its model, and assert on the rendered view. Where a screenshot is the evidence, capture the window's own image offscreen rather than photographing the screen. Keep activation on the code path a person triggers, and exercise it by calling the handler, not by launching the app repeatedly. - Write nowhere the person keeps their own state. Point every test at a scratch home, a scratch preferences domain or suite, and scratch install locations. A test must never modify the real config, library, login items or installed applications. Production may read an override the tests set; it must behave normally when that override is absent.
- Batch anything unavoidably visible. If a check genuinely needs a real launch, do all of its observations in one run instead of one relaunch per assertion, and say in the evidence that it was visible.
- Leave nothing running. Every process, window, server and temporary file the test started is stopped and removed, including on failure.
Prove the test can fail
A test you never saw fail is decoration. For any regression test — especially one written after the fix — falsify it once: revert or break the production code the way the bug would, confirm red for the expected reason, restore, confirm green. Verify the revert actually took: a stash or checkout with a wrong pathspec reverts nothing, silently, and the "red" run quietly tests the fixed code. The tell: the "red" numbers equal the green numbers.
When a test goes red after a change
Triage in order of likelihood before editing anything:
- The test encodes deleted semantics — it pinned an accident of the old implementation. Re-spec it to the contract's real claim.
- The experiment lost control of a variable — a new mechanism leaks in. Pin the variable.
- The margin was chaos-tight. Widen it, with a comment saying so.
- The code is actually wrong. Probe the state, find the mechanism.
Never tune constants to make one test pass without rerunning the neighbors: coupled systems reshuffle. If two consecutive tweaks each break different tests, stop poking — the control surface is wrong; find the mechanism.
Review checklist
Walk this on any test diff, apply fixes in the same pass, re-run the suite:
- Does an assertion restate a type guarantee? → delete it.
- Would it break on a config edit with no logic change, or is it
skipIf-conditional on config? → mock the seam. - Are assertions mostly mocked-internal "called with"? → test a layer up against observable output.
- Does it pin a single sample of a stochastic outcome? → assert a distribution.
- Does it assert a count without the value on a dedup/normalize path? → add the value assertion.
- Is the function under test still called in production? → if the only callers are tests, delete the function and the test together.
- Can it fail for the right reason? → falsify once to confirm.
- Does it take focus, move the pointer, play sound, or write the person's real config, library or applications? → drive the model and a scratch location instead, and capture windows offscreen.
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name: write-tests
description: Write tests that pin real behavior instead of implementation details, config values, or lucky samples. Use when adding tests for new behavior, writing a regression test, fixing a brittle or flaky test, reviewing a test diff, or when a test breaks after a refactor or config change that didn't change behavior.
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# Write Tests
A good test fails **only** when real behavior breaks, and passes through every
refactor or config change that preserves it. Most bad tests fail the opposite
way: red on harmless changes, green while the real path is broken. Every rule
below serves that one goal.
## Workflow: tracer bullets, not a batch
1. **Write ONE test at a time.** Assert first, watch it go red on the un-fixed
code, make the code earn green, learn, then write the next. Never a batch up
front: a batch written against *imagined* behavior pins what you guessed —
those tests pass when the mechanism breaks and fail when it's fine. Each
green cycle tells you what the next test should actually assert.
2. **Iterate on the fastest focused runner** (one file, one test name), and run
the full suite only as a final gate before handing off. Check the exit code,
not just the output — a runner that prints nothing and a green run look the
same. On failures, read EVERY red test before fixing one; they often share a
root cause.
3. **Before calling it done**, prove the test can fail (below) and walk the
review checklist.
## What to assert
- **Observable behavior through the outermost practical entry point** — return
values, exit codes, persisted rows, HTTP responses, rendered output — never
which internal functions ran or how a value is computed. A test on the public
surface survives a rewrite of everything underneath; a test that reaches into
internals breaks on every refactor and pins implementation, not behavior.
Reserve isolated unit tests for genuinely tricky pure logic (parsers,
schedulers, state machines).
- **Nothing the compiler already guarantees.** A test that re-asserts a type
signature — field shapes, rejected argument types — can only fail if the
compiler failed first. Spend the budget on business rules, arithmetic,
branching, ordering, edge cases, side effects.
- **Actual values, not collection sizes.** For dedup/normalize/idempotency
paths, `length == 1` passes even when normalization is broken; also assert
the stored value equals the expected canonical form.
- **The smallest scale that can show the behavior.** Two entities and one
mechanism before crowds and integration; small tests fail fast with readable
state and don't entangle five behaviors in one assert.
- **The design contract, not current behavior.** When a test goes red, the
reflex is to re-measure and pin the new number — resist it: a bar calibrated
to whatever the code currently does silently encodes bugs as baseline. Write
the assert from the stated contract and make the code earn it; if no contract
exists, that's a question for the owner, not a number to measure-and-pin.
Recalibrating is legitimate only when the contract itself changed.
- **Deterministic claims tight, stochastic claims as distributions.** An
invariant that holds every run gets an exact threshold. Anything noisy or
tuning-dependent ("A usually beats B", "load balances evenly") must be
asserted over a set of runs/seeds as a band — a single-sample pin on a
stochastic outcome is not a weak test, it is a **blind** one: it certifies
whatever the lucky sample did and can mask a systematic bias for months. If
you must assert a noisy differential, widen the margin and name it
chaos-marginal in a comment.
## Seams and mocks
- **Don't couple tests to config — mock the seam.** A test keyed to a live
config value (which flag is on, which tier is default) breaks when someone
legitimately edits config. The fix is never `skipIf`/conditionals — a skipped
assertion hides the coupling and stops covering the path. Feed the function
fixed inputs, or stub the lookup so fixture ids resolve to fixed values.
Litmus: "would this break if a config value changed with no logic change?"
- **Don't over-mock — every mock is a frozen assumption.** Mock at the system's
edges (network, clock, filesystem, third-party SDK, config lookup), never
internal collaborators. Stubbing an internal hard-codes its current contract;
refactor it and the test lies. Never make "was called with" the primary
assertion when an observable outcome exists. Mocking three internal modules
to test one function means: test one layer up, where they're real.
- **Harnesses must wire the system the way production does.** If a bug only
showed up against a real environment, the harness skipped an input production
always sets — fix the harness, don't just fix the bug.
## Control variables and probes
- **One variable per comparison.** Pin everything else — same seed, same
counts, same configuration on both arms; disable mechanisms that aren't the
subject. When a comparison test breaks, first ask whether an unrelated
mechanism leaked into the experiment before touching the code under test.
- **Validate, don't assume.** Never reason your way to a conclusion about
*cause* — which path fired, where the failures come from — and act on it.
Write a throwaway probe that reads public state and prints; the plausible
story is wrong often enough to burn a session, and one probe redirects the
whole effort. Probes are scratch: put them where they cannot be committed,
delete them the moment the question is answered, or promote them into a real
test if the behavior deserves a permanent guard.
## Tests run on someone's live machine
A suite that grabs the desktop is a suite people stop running. Whatever the test
needs, it takes the least intrusive form of it:
- **Never take focus.** No activating the app, no `makeKeyAndOrderFront`, no
raising, no moving the pointer, no simulated clicks into the session, no audio
playback. A UI a person must not be interrupted by is still fully testable:
build the window, drive its model, and assert on the rendered view. Where a
screenshot is the evidence, capture the window's own image offscreen rather
than photographing the screen. Keep activation on the code path a person
triggers, and exercise it by calling the handler, not by launching the app
repeatedly.
- **Write nowhere the person keeps their own state.** Point every test at a
scratch home, a scratch preferences domain or suite, and scratch install
locations. A test must never modify the real config, library, login items or
installed applications. Production may read an override the tests set; it must
behave normally when that override is absent.
- **Batch anything unavoidably visible.** If a check genuinely needs a real
launch, do all of its observations in one run instead of one relaunch per
assertion, and say in the evidence that it was visible.
- **Leave nothing running.** Every process, window, server and temporary file the
test started is stopped and removed, including on failure.
## Prove the test can fail
A test you never saw fail is decoration. For any regression test — especially
one written *after* the fix — falsify it once: revert or break the production
code the way the bug would, confirm red *for the expected reason*, restore,
confirm green. Verify the revert actually took: a stash or checkout with a
wrong pathspec reverts nothing, silently, and the "red" run quietly tests the
fixed code. The tell: the "red" numbers equal the green numbers.
## When a test goes red after a change
Triage in order of likelihood before editing anything:
1. The test encodes **deleted semantics** — it pinned an accident of the old
implementation. Re-spec it to the contract's real claim.
2. The experiment **lost control of a variable** — a new mechanism leaks in.
Pin the variable.
3. The **margin was chaos-tight**. Widen it, with a comment saying so.
4. The code is **actually wrong**. Probe the state, find the mechanism.
Never tune constants to make one test pass without rerunning the neighbors:
coupled systems reshuffle. If two consecutive tweaks each break different
tests, stop poking — the control surface is wrong; find the mechanism.
## Review checklist
Walk this on any test diff, apply fixes in the same pass, re-run the suite:
1. Does an assertion restate a type guarantee? → delete it.
2. Would it break on a config edit with no logic change, or is it
`skipIf`-conditional on config? → mock the seam.
3. Are assertions mostly mocked-internal "called with"? → test a layer up
against observable output.
4. Does it pin a single sample of a stochastic outcome? → assert a
distribution.
5. Does it assert a count without the value on a dedup/normalize path? → add
the value assertion.
6. Is the function under test still called in production? → if the only
callers are tests, delete the function and the test together.
7. Can it fail for the right reason? → falsify once to confirm.
8. Does it take focus, move the pointer, play sound, or write the person's real
config, library or applications? → drive the model and a scratch location
instead, and capture windows offscreen.
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