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Test Data Is a Product: Fixtures for Nondeterministic Systems
Dana Kowalski
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Golden files stop working when the output is different every time. How we build, version and review fixtures for systems whose correct answer is a range rather than a value.
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Dana Kowalski
Principal Engineer, Substrate AI
Dana runs the code-generation platform at Substrate, where about a third of merged pull requests are now machine-authored. Her work is mostly the verification layer that makes that survivable.
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