majiayu000 Completion verification
The gap between "should work" and "does work" is where most wasted cycles live. This closes it.
Before claiming done
- Run the real check, not a subset. The command the project gates on, on the current state of the tree.
- Read the output. An exit code of zero with skipped tests, or a build with new warnings, is not what it looks like at a glance.
- Re-read the original request. Not your interpretation of it several steps ago — the actual words. Confirm each part was addressed, and name any part that was not.
- Check for collateral damage. What else consumes what you changed? Did anything else move?
- Confirm nothing was left behind — debug statements, a skipped test, a TODO standing in for the hard case.
What a claim must carry
Say what you ran and what it said. "Tests pass" is an assertion; the command and its output is evidence. If you could not run something, say that explicitly rather than omitting it — an unstated gap reads as a covered one.
Honest incompleteness
Partial work reported accurately is useful. Partial work reported as complete costs someone else the time to discover otherwise, plus the trust. If a part is blocked, unverified, or deliberately skipped, name it in the same breath as the parts that are done.
Never
- Claim a fix works without having reproduced the failure first.
- Report success from a stale run.
- Weaken, skip, or delete a failing test in order to claim green.