Lexicon

Untested Failure Assumptions

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: lexicon:untested-failure-assumptions

Canonical: Lexicon

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

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Production Risk and before Connection Cleanup.

Category

  • Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety

Negated by

  • Chaos Engineering

Violates

  • Chaos Engineering

Linked from

  • Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety