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Test Effectiveness

Cases in the observatory's Test Effectiveness family.

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  1. 2026-10-24 Cutting between words preserves a sentence's meaning

    now fails loudly Regression tests require the full selected context and its governing modal to survive cloze construction.

    InvariantsTest EffectivenessRuntime InvariantsMutation Testing

  2. 2026-10-07 A placeholder written for a reader was a broken link the site's own checker followed

    now fails loudly a build gate fails when generated text carries a literal <...> placeholder inside an http(s) URL, so a placeholder cannot ship as a 404-ing link on the site's own domain

    StructuralTest EffectivenessPre-Promotion Invariant GatesSnapshot Tests

  3. 2026-09-19 Hardcoding a "recent" date into a test fixture keeps it recent

    now fails loudly the telemetry collector accepts SUBLAYER_NOW to freeze its clock, and the test pins it to the fixtures' own day, so the window is deterministic and cannot age out

    BehavioralTest EffectivenessExample-Based TestsPre-Promotion Invariant Gates