Thanks to everyone here who suggested lists of desirable test properties. I wrote up my findings so far in a blog: https://coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/12/test-desiderata-2-0/
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Thanks to everyone here who suggested lists of desirable test properties. I wrote up my findings so far in a blog: https://coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/12/test-desiderata-2-0/
@emilybache Have you seen this paper? https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26204 It reports on analysis of human written tests and compares them to the properties of automatically generated tests.
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