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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.
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| When Quality Becomes Quantity | 2026-04-20 |
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Coverage percentages, pass rates, defect counts — all of them degrade the moment they become OKRs. Goodhart's Law is the missing chapter of any honest argument about metrics in testing, and it turns the slogan "automation is a tool, not a goal" into a demonstrable claim. |
When Quality Becomes Quantity — Goodhart's Law and the Metrics Trap. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."1 This is the missing chapter of your Cucumber polemic. Coverage percentages, pass rates, defect counts — all of them degrade the moment they become OKRs. You already hint at this in Five Essential Lessons when you say "automation is a tool, not a goal"; Goodhart lets you prove it.