The Test Oracle Stays Pinned: A When-Not-To Field Guide
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The payment service sat on a green pipeline at noon. Forty new tests had landed from an overnight agent. Every assertion matched a fixture the agent also wrote. Staging accepted the card charge while production rejected it. The mock had never seen the real processor's 409 body. A free lane had auth…
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The Test Oracle Stays Pinned: A When-Not-To Field Guide