Pith Number

pith:J6T7QSLI

pith:2017:J6T7QSLIUYGPG3WTNPZPYGYUIU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Exploratory Testing: One Size Doesn't Fit All

Ahmad Nauman Ghazi, Elizabeth Bjarnason, Kai Petersen, Per Runeson

arxiv:1704.00537 v1 · 2017-04-03 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J6T7QSLIUYGPG3WTNPZPYGYUIU}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:47:22.034554Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4fa7f84968a60cf36ed36bf2fc1b144533e35d88f9e117dbf2ceb4b618e54353

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.00537 · arxiv_version: 1704.00537v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.00537 · pith_short_12: J6T7QSLIUYGP · pith_short_16: J6T7QSLIUYGPG3WT · pith_short_8: J6T7QSLI

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/J6T7QSLIUYGPG3WTNPZPYGYUIU \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 4fa7f84968a60cf36ed36bf2fc1b144533e35d88f9e117dbf2ceb4b618e54353

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "60cd24ec4530482554dabba0553718e943695f49a1819ba02ac0c14b24804dd3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-03T11:46:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c33b4a0bff04f7e4c9ff811c2a77f32ce34602629a7a88e9d99d3db1e52424d0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.00537",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}