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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)
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Regression as Institutional Memory. A test suite is the codified set of claims an organisation has committed to believing about itself. Every regression failure is either a discovery (the world changed) or an amnesia event (we forgot why we believed this). The epistemology angle here is rich — Wittgenstein's On Certainty[1] is a good touchstone. This would also give you a stronger argument than you've yet made for why deleting tests is sometimes the right move.