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title: "When Quality Becomes Quantity"
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date: 2026-04-20
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topics: [philosophy, craft]
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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.
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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.
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[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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