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Finley Zhou

Sep 10

Do Not Let an Agent Patch Edit the Oracle It Must Pass

#testing #python #ai #git

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Sep 10

Three Gates for Agent Patches: Frozen Flakes, Pinned Fixtures, Properties

#testing #python #agents #ci

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Sep 10

Merge Agent Patches Only When Two Test-World Receipts Match

#testing #python #ci #agents

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Sep 10

Lock Behavior at HEAD Before an Agent Can Add Tests

#testing #ci #agents #python

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Sep 10

Put Property Checks on the Impact Cone, Not on the Edited Function

#testing #python #agents #ci

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Sep 10

CI Green After an Agent Patch Is Not an Inventory Diff

#testing #agents #python #ci

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Sep 10

Tautologies Are Not Tests. Classify Agent Patches Before Merge

#testing #python #agents #cicd

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Sep 9

Reject Agent Diffs That Widen skip, xfail, or Timeouts

#testing #python #agents #ci

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Sep 9

Quarantine Cannot Vote on an Agent Patch

#testing #python #ci #agents

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Sep 9

Four Test Hunk Classes. Merge Only One With Production Code.

#testing #agents #python #ci

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Sep 9

Diff the Oracle: Refuse Agent Patches That Weaken Assertions

#testing #python #agents #ci

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Sep 9

Every New Branch in an Agent Diff Needs a Decision Row

#testing #python #ai #git

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Sep 9

Assertion Loss Is a Regression. Score It in CI.

#testing #python #agents #ci

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Sep 9

Same-Session Tests Are Not Evidence. Isolate the Oracle.

#testing #agents #python #ci

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Sep 8

Score Assertion Weakening Before You Merge an Agent Patch

#testing #agents #python #cicd

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Sep 8

Withhold the Oracle: Fixture Entropy, Metamorphic Checks, and a Flake Budget

#testing #python #agents #devops

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Sep 8

Oracle Order for Agent Diffs: Replay, Properties, Then a Flake Budget

#testing #agents #python #ci

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Sep 8

Track Property Provenance Before You Merge an Agent Patch

#testing #agents #python #ci

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Sep 8

Agent Patches Evade Name Freezes. Bind Flakes to Failure Signatures.

#testing #python #agents #cicd

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Sep 8

Pin the Seed and Keep the Contract: A Merge Gate for Agent Patches

#testing #agents #python #ci

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Sep 8

Pin Time, Maps, and IDs Before an Agent Patch Can Pass

#testing #agents #python #ci

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Sep 8

Write-Block the Test Tree Before an Agent Patch Can Go Green

#testing #python #agents #ci

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Sep 7

Silent Defaults Are the Real Agent Diff. Ledger Them Before Merge.

#testing #python #agents #devops

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Sep 7

Hide the Grading Suite: Agent Patches Need a Second Process

#testing #agents #python #ci

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Sep 7

The Model Writes the Patch. Three Files Decide If It Merges.

#testing #python #ai #agents

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Sep 7

Lock the Test Surface, Then Prove the Agent Patch With Relations

#testing #agents #python #ci

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Sep 7

Seal the Oracle Before You Merge an Agent Patch

#testing #python #ai #devops

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Sep 7

Keep a Blind Fixture Set for Agent Patches

#testing #agents #python #ci

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Sep 7

Unproven Is Not Green: Rank Agent-Patch Tests, Then Isolate Flakes

#testing #agents #ci #python

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Sep 7

Classify the Test Diff Before You Trust an Agent Patch

#testing #agents #python #ci

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Sep 7

Split the Flake Before You Freeze It

#testing #python #ai #agents

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Sep 6

Agent Patches Need a Sensor Queue, Not a Skip List

#testing #agents #python #ci

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Sep 6

Measure Oracle Power Before You Merge an Agent Patch

#testing #agents #python #ci

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Sep 6

Reject Agent Patches That Quiet the Test Suite

#testing #python #agents #ci

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Sep 6

Split Mixed Agent Diffs: The Test Hunk Is Not a Witness

#testing #agents #python #ci

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Sep 6

Put a Write Boundary Between the Agent Patch and the Oracle

#testing #agents #python #ci

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Sep 6

Run Only the Invariants the Diff Can Break

#testing #python #agents #ci

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Sep 6

Map Callers Before You Trust a Green Agent Patch

#testing #python #agents #ai

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Sep 6

Metamorphic Checks for Agent Patches When You Have No Trusted Oracle

#testing #python #ai #agents

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Sep 5

A Receipt for Every Agent Patch: Seeds, Digests, and a Freeze File

#testing #agents #python #devops

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Sep 5

Green Tests Can Be a Weakened Oracle: A Three-Bucket Plan for Agent Patches

#testing #python #ai #agents

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Sep 5

Green CI Is Not a Boundary Test: Partition Tables for Agent Patches

#testing #agents #python #ci

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Sep 5

Name the Failure Class Before You Keep an Agent Patch

#testing #python #devops #ai

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Sep 5

Test-Inventory Diff as a Merge Gate for Agent Patches

#testing #python #agents #git

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Sep 5

A Frozen Test Is Not Coverage: A Merge Gate for Agent Patches

#testing #python #agents #devops

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Sep 5

Shadow-Compare the Agent Patch. Merge Only Classified Divergences.

#testing #python #agents #ai

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Sep 4

Don't Xfail the Flake. Journal Its Seed.

#testing #python #agents #ai

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Sep 4

Classify the Failure Before the Agent Edits a Test

#testing #python #agents #ci

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Sep 4

Diff the Test Suite, Not Just the Exit Code, After an Agent Patch

#testing #python #ai #agents

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Sep 4

The Compiler as Validator: When a Free Model's Wrong C++ Is Still Cheap

#cpp #templates #ai #llm

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Sep 4

Case Study: A Free Model's 47th Test Input Crashed Our Parser

#cpp #testing #ai #security

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Sep 4

Capture the Oracle Before the Agent Runs

#testing #python #ai #agents

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Sep 4

The 3 AM Restart: A 25-Line Watchdog a Free Model Wrote for My Free Server

#bash #devops #cpp #ai

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Sep 4

Free AI Log Triage: Cut Weekly Review to 15 Minutes

#logtriage #ai #python #devops

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Sep 4

Score Test Hunks Before You Trust a Green Agent Patch

#testing #python #agents #ci

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Sep 4

Build a Write-Protected Test Plane for Agent Patches

#testing #agents #python #ai

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Sep 3

Assertion Deltas Are the Real Test Report for Agent Patches

#testing #agents #python #ci

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Sep 3

Don't Skip Flakes After an Agent Patch. Demote Them.

#testing #python #agents #ci

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Sep 3

Spend a Freeze Slot Only After Property and Fixture Both Fail

#testing #python #ai #devops

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Sep 3

A Shrinking Input Domain Is a Failed Agent Patch

#testing #python #agents #ci

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