· The SYZYGY blog
Field notes on integration knowledge
Durable integration knowledge, deterministic execution, and keeping requirements, tests, and traceability aligned — from the team building SYZYGY.
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12 August 2026
We've been failing BDD for two decades — and the .feature file is the evidence
BDD promised behaviour a business person could read. Decades on, .feature files are test scripts in disguise. The fix is knowledge documents before technology.
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9 July 2026
We built our services on a shared contract — but never our tests
Services share a contract, so they compose across teams. Tests share nothing — so no team can reuse another's, and component tests break at integration.
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8 July 2026
When the engineer leaves, the integration knowledge leaves with them
When the one engineer who understood your integrations leaves, the knowledge leaves too. Keep integration test knowledge in version control instead of in people's heads.