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Do Not Freeze the Test. Freeze the Seed and the Fixture Digest.

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A flake freeze that records only a pytest node id is a skip list. It does not keep the oracle. When an agent patch rewrites a fixture, a generator, or an equality assertion, the same test name can pass for a different reason. Freeze the generator seed and the fixture digest. Keep the test enabled.…

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  1. 2026-09-18 20:54 · DEV Community — AI
    Do Not Freeze the Test. Freeze the Seed and the Fixture Digest.

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