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Resilience & state · 2 min read

Break the Copy. Learn About the Product.

Failure injection without modifying the original artifact.

/carbon-failure

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Happy-path testing tells you what works when the supporting conditions cooperate. Customers also encounter missing files, interrupted responses, malformed data, and dependencies that say no.

/carbon-failure explores error handling through copy-only failure injection. The original artifacts are preserved while the investigation uses a generated sandbox and controlled faults.

An error deserves an expected outcome

Imagine a configuration file is missing. Should startup fail clearly, use a documented default, or disable one feature? “It did not crash” is not enough if the fallback quietly exposes the wrong environment.

CARBON can propose and apply relevant faults inside the authorized sandbox: truncated input, denied test permissions, partial responses, missing configuration, or simulated dependency loss. The next step is observing how the product contains the failure and recovers.

The copy boundary matters, but a copied app can still call real services. Isolation, synthetic identities, and stubs remain necessary. Copying source is not permission to charge a card, send a message, or mutate shared data.

Verify both sides of the experiment

/carbon-failure make an isolated copy and test missing configuration plus malformed API responses; use local stubs and preserve the original

The report should identify the injected fault, actual behavior, recovery expectation, evidence, and original-artifact integrity checks. Resource failures should be modeled with limits or test doubles, not by exhausting the user's machine.

The purpose is not to make the application fail spectacularly. It is to discover whether it fails in a way the user can understand, contain, and recover from.

Install CARBON at testers.ai/carbon for a supported coding agent such as Claude, Codex, or Cursor.

— Jason Arbon, CEO testers.ai