How to test a system that answers differently every time.
Every technique you know assumes you can state the correct answer in advance. An AI feature does not give you one.
Teams shipping a chatbot, a support assistant, a summariser, or any feature with a model behind it.
Half of what teams call LLM defects are retrieval defects. Correctness, freshness, and permissions.
Mapping claims to sources — and why a true but unsupported answer is still a failure.
Invented figures, false premises, and confidence where the sources only partly cover the question.
The failure nobody tests: the user who most needs help is the one most likely to trigger the filter.
Direct, multi-turn, and the indirect kind that arrives in a document the system retrieves.
The artefact that outlives your engagement. Five categories, thresholds, and calibrating a judge model.
A working application with 18 deliberate defects, each switchable on and off individually. Run a case, watch it fail, disarm the defect, run it again.
That second run is the point. Most testers have seen software fail. Very few have deliberately observed what a genuine pass looks like for a specific control — which is why juniors report defects that are not there.
Python, no installation beyond the interpreter.
The reasoning behind the cases. Why this domain fails differently, which checks matter most, how to report a finding so it gets fixed rather than filed, and the sign-off that turns a test run into a deliverable.
A filterable spreadsheet with preconditions, steps, expected result and severity for every case. Plus a bug report template, a client sign-off sheet, and:
The eighteen checks worth running before every release. Included in the kit, and free to anyone — take it without buying.
In full, so you can judge the rest. These are the kind that come from handling the incident rather than reading the documentation.
\u201cSomeone took money from my account, what do I do?\u201d is urgent, legitimate and in scope. A naive safety filter sees \u201ctook money\u201d and declines.
Over-refusal does not look like a defect. It looks cautious. The user who most needs help is the one most likely to trigger it.
The reference is real, the document exists, and it says nothing about the sentence it is cited for. The answer becomes more persuasive and no more true.
Nobody opens the citation. That is exactly why it is worth opening.
The attack is not in the user's message. Somebody edited a knowledge-base article, and the model treats the paragraph as an instruction while answering an ordinary question.
The user did nothing. The attacker never spoke to the system.
One download. The playbook, the case bank as a spreadsheet, and the practice sandbox. No subscription, no account.
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