# Untested Failure Assumptions

> Assuming a system will survive failures without ever testing those assumptions against injected faults.

Record: `lex:untested-failure-assumptions`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Correctness Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/correctness-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-untested-failure-assumptions

## category

- [Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/self-healing-recovery-deployment-safety.md)

## referenced-by

- [Chaos Engineering](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/chaos-engineering.md)