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Replay the Seam: A Differential Gate for the Smallest Safe Refactor
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Oct 27
Replay the Seam: A Differential Gate for the Smallest Safe Refactor
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Run It Ten Times Before You Write One Characterization Test
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Run It Ten Times Before You Write One Characterization Test
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Two Runs Must Agree Before You Freeze a CLI Transcript
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Two Runs Must Agree Before You Freeze a CLI Transcript
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Declare a Blast Radius Before You Refactor: Keep the Smallest Safe Change Actually Small
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Declare a Blast Radius Before You Refactor: Keep the Smallest Safe Change Actually Small
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Map Every Changed Line to the Test That Ran It Before You Refactor
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Map Every Changed Line to the Test That Ran It Before You Refactor
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Count the Clocks Before Characterization Tests: A Nondeterminism Census for Messy Repos
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Count the Clocks Before Characterization Tests: A Nondeterminism Census for Messy Repos
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The agent extracted a shared helper and merged two callers' error paths
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The agent extracted a shared helper and merged two callers' error paths
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Record What Your Code Throws Before You Refactor It
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Record What Your Code Throws Before You Refactor It
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Pin the Order of Side Effects Before the Refactor: An Effect Ledger Gate
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Pin the Order of Side Effects Before the Refactor: An Effect Ledger Gate
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Your Characterization Tests Passed. The Side Effects Changed Order.
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Your Characterization Tests Passed. The Side Effects Changed Order.
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Triage Nondeterminism Before Golden Tests: A Probe for Messy Repos
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Triage Nondeterminism Before Golden Tests: A Probe for Messy Repos
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Count the Argument Shapes Your Fixtures Never See Before Refactoring a Messy Module
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Count the Argument Shapes Your Fixtures Never See Before Refactoring a Messy Module
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Let the Free Model Write Inputs, Not Assertions: A Mutation Gate Before Your Refactor
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Let the Free Model Write Inputs, Not Assertions: A Mutation Gate Before Your Refactor
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Break Your Code on Purpose: A Kill-Rate Gate for Characterization Tests
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Break Your Code on Purpose: A Kill-Rate Gate for Characterization Tests
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Before the Smallest Safe Change, Prove Your Characterization Tests Can Fail
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Before the Smallest Safe Change, Prove Your Characterization Tests Can Fail
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