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✅ New Article: *Proving Your SIL Code Behaves*
Title:
🧪 Proving Your SIL Code Behaves - Property Tests and Structured Checks for SIL / SIR / sirrev
🔗 https://huggingface.co/blog/kanaria007/proving-your-sil-code
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Summary:
SIL is meant to make decision logic *auditable* — but you still need a practical way to say: *“this code still behaves, and we can show you why.”*
This mini-guide is a *non-normative* “Hello, Structured Testing” playbook for SIL: turn domain rules into QuickCheck-style properties, wire SIR/*sirrev* into structural checks, and run it all in CI like SIL patches are potentially dangerous code.
> Tests aren’t a vibe.
> *They’re part of the structured stack.*
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Why It Matters:
• Makes “trustworthy decision code” achievable for normal engineers (without turning everyone into a formal methods specialist).
• Separates what to test at each layer (*SIL → SIR → sirrev*) so you can catch semantic drift, compiler regressions, and structural weirdness early.
• Connects local tests to global system signals (e.g., determinism / consistency / coverage), so “testing” feeds the same measurement language as the rest of the SI stack.
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What’s Inside:
*Foundation stack:*
• Mental model: *SIL → SIR → sirrev → metrics* (and why each needs different checks).
*Practical recipes:*
• Property tests for invariants (bounds, monotonicity, determinism).
• Golden diffs for SIR (did the compiler preserve meaning?).
• sirrev structural checks (no nondet in DET, effects guarded by CON, balanced frames).
*Escalation ladder (when you need stronger guarantees):*
• V1 property testing → V2 symbolic execution → V3 SMT → V4 theorem proving (and when to climb).
📖 Structured Intelligence Engineering Series
Title:
🧪 Proving Your SIL Code Behaves - Property Tests and Structured Checks for SIL / SIR / sirrev
🔗 https://huggingface.co/blog/kanaria007/proving-your-sil-code
---
Summary:
SIL is meant to make decision logic *auditable* — but you still need a practical way to say: *“this code still behaves, and we can show you why.”*
This mini-guide is a *non-normative* “Hello, Structured Testing” playbook for SIL: turn domain rules into QuickCheck-style properties, wire SIR/*sirrev* into structural checks, and run it all in CI like SIL patches are potentially dangerous code.
> Tests aren’t a vibe.
> *They’re part of the structured stack.*
---
Why It Matters:
• Makes “trustworthy decision code” achievable for normal engineers (without turning everyone into a formal methods specialist).
• Separates what to test at each layer (*SIL → SIR → sirrev*) so you can catch semantic drift, compiler regressions, and structural weirdness early.
• Connects local tests to global system signals (e.g., determinism / consistency / coverage), so “testing” feeds the same measurement language as the rest of the SI stack.
---
What’s Inside:
*Foundation stack:*
• Mental model: *SIL → SIR → sirrev → metrics* (and why each needs different checks).
*Practical recipes:*
• Property tests for invariants (bounds, monotonicity, determinism).
• Golden diffs for SIR (did the compiler preserve meaning?).
• sirrev structural checks (no nondet in DET, effects guarded by CON, balanced frames).
*Escalation ladder (when you need stronger guarantees):*
• V1 property testing → V2 symbolic execution → V3 SMT → V4 theorem proving (and when to climb).
📖 Structured Intelligence Engineering Series
