# Untested Failure Assumptions

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

Record: `lexicon: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#lexicon-untested-failure-assumptions

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Production Risk](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/production-risk.md) and before [Connection Cleanup](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/connection-cleanup.md).

## Category

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

## Negated by

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

## Linked from

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