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Keep tests for failure boundaries absent from system runs
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Keep focused tests when the maintained system run proves only the successful path and cannot safely force corruption, provenance drift, threshold leakage, malicious filesystem inputs, concurrency cancellation, or metric-denominator mistakes. Those tests protect distinct failure boundaries even when they use small synthetic fixtures. Delete tests that merely restate source-file spelling or constants when an executable build, smoke, or evaluation artifact already proves the same property; otherwise textual snapshots create churn without increasing fault detection. The limit is that synthetic numerical tests cannot substitute for real dependency, accelerator, convergence, or holdout evidence. Applies when: Auditing a mixed test suite around expensive or operationally gated end-to-end runs. Keywords: test value failure boundaries system runs provenance corruption numerical evaluation
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