Standardize draft articles with YAML frontmatter including title, date, topics, related, and abstract. Expand README drafts section into a table listing all drafts with topics. Add "Testing Telos" to published articles.
Introduces nine new draft articles exploring intersections of software testing with philosophy, epistemology, and related concepts:
- On Flakiness (Heraclitus and non-deterministic tests)
- Popper and the Risky Test (demarcation criterion)
- Regression as Institutional Memory (Wittgenstein's On Certainty)
- Tacit Knowledge and the Testing Checklist (Polanyi's tacit dimension)
- Test Environments as Platonic Shadows (Plato's cave allegory)
- The Tester as Witness (legal metaphor and testimony)
- Testing Probabilistic Systems (ML and statistical testing)
- The Oracle Problem (oracles in testing frameworks)
- When Quality Becomes Quantity (Goodhart's Law and metrics)
- Replaced "cheap" with "inexpensive" for better tone.
- Explicitly introduced "telos" with Aristotle reference.
- Rephrased sentences for better flow and conciseness.
- Updated risk distribution description for precision.
- Remove redundant subtitle and reorganize introduction
- Simplify language around "telos" and rephrase key sections
- Update diagnostic question and conclusion for better readability
Introduces article on testing strategies shaped by purpose (telos), including four archetypes: triangle, bullseye, diamond, and star. Adds corresponding SVG diagrams in assets/clipart.
Introduces an interactive HTML page in drafts/ explaining testing strategies via geometric shapes (triangle, bullseye, diamond, star). Includes embedded CSS for responsive design, SVG icons, and JavaScript for overview/detail view navigation.
- Enhanced the abstract to emphasize practical wisdom in choosing not to test.
- Added a new section with possible directions for the article, including Aristotelian angles, opportunity costs, illusion of control, negative impacts of testing, and moral dimensions.
- Removed template footer notes.
- Introduce `scripts/new-article` bash script to generate new article files from a title, using a template, and open in vim/vi.
- Add `scripts/article-template.md` as the base structure for new articles.
- Update README.md with instructions on using the new script and directory structure.
- Include an example draft `articles/drafts/when-not-to-test.md` generated via the script.
Add consistent front-matter schema to CLAUDE.md and GROK.md, including title, date, topics, related articles, and abstracts. Apply similar front-matter to draft files (agile-stories.md, uses-and-abuses.md) and published articles (Agile-Or-Whatever-You-Call-It.md, Testers-As-Explorers.md, etc.) to improve indexing, searchability, and cross-referencing. Ensure topics use a controlled vocabulary and abstracts capture core theses.
