Seed Faults Before the Smallest Safe Change: A Gate for Refactoring a Messy Module
You inherit a module that has outlived three owners, and its tests are green on your laptop but red in CI for reasons nobody has written down. The instinct is to write characterization tests, watch them pass, and start refactoring the same afternoon. That sequence feels disciplined, and it is exact…
Read the full story at DEV Community — AI ↗
Timeline · 1 report
- 2026-11-08 19:29 · DEV Community — AI
Seed Faults Before the Smallest Safe Change: A Gate for Refactoring a Messy Module