# Test Authoring

> Realize each surface plan as an executable test: encode the predicate as an assertion and wire the evidence source the technique requires, producing a runnable test that covers the surface.

Record: `algorithms:test-authoring`
Kind: algorithm
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms#algorithms-test-authoring
Closure: https://banes-lab.com/json/records/algorithms/test-authoring/closure

Listed in [Algorithm contracts](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/algorithms.md), after [Technique and Invariant Selection](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/technique-invariant-selection.md) and before [Evidence Verdict](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/evidence-verdict.md).

## Domain

- [Test coverage](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms-domain/test-coverage.md)

## Stage

- [act](https://banes-lab.com/records/stage/act.md)

## Axis

- [formalization](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/axis-formalization.md)

## Tier

- [process](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/domain-tier-process.md)

## Composed by

- [Test Coverage Kernel](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/test-coverage-kernel.md)

## Named in the derivation of

- [Test Coverage Kernel](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/test-coverage-kernel.md)

## Math type

- [Computation](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/math-type-computation.md)

## Force

- [Correctness verification](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/correctness-verification.md)

## Linked from

- [Test coverage](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms/algorithms-domain-test-coverage.md)
- [The derivation loop](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/reasoning-loop-derivation-loop.md)
- [The axes](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-axes.md)
- [The mathematics](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-mathematics.md)
- [Domain tiers](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-domain-tier.md)
- [The forces](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-forces.md)