Testing Patterns

A pragmatic approach to testing that emphasises:

• Live testing over mocks
• Agent execution to preserve context
• YAML specs as documentation and tests
• Persistent results committed to git

Philosophy

This is not traditional TDD. Instead:

1. Test in production/staging with good logging
2. Use agents to run tests (keeps main context clean)
3. Define tests declaratively in YAML (human-readable, version-controlled)
4. Focus on integration (real servers, real data)

Why Agent-Based Testing?