# Specification-Based Testing / Spec Maintenance

> "specification-based-testing" (computation-core layer) is traded against "Spec Maintenance" (computation-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Spec Maintenance" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:spec-maintenance-specification-based-testing`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-spec-maintenance-specification-based-testing

## tensions-with

- [Specification-Based Testing](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/specification-based-testing.md)
- [Spec Maintenance](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/spec-maintenance.md)