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Agent Patches Touch Your Fixtures Too: Fingerprint the Setup Layer Before You Freeze a Flaky Test

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Most agent-patch review stops at the diff of src/ and tests/ . That is one layer too high. The patch that makes a red suite green often edits the setup layer — conftest.py , factories, seed data, golden files — and those edits are invisible to any check that only counts collected test IDs or compar…

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  1. 2026-10-17 04:55 · DEV Community — AI
    Agent Patches Touch Your Fixtures Too: Fingerprint the Setup Layer Before You Freeze a Flaky Test

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