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Architecture Tests Can Pass Yet Miss Critical Bugs
Architecture tests that pass can still miss bugs if their discovery scope is incomplete. A .NET guard using syntax parsing failed to scan all relevant files, leaving a background job with the same risk undetected. The author argues that tests must verify detector accuracy, discovery coverage, and boundary conditions separately.
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The piece highlights a common blind spot in automated testing: a green result doesn't guarantee coverage, a lesson that applies beyond .NET to any codebase relying on static analysis.
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