Pith Number

pith:WAKD6XBJ

pith:2024:WAKD6XBJLSFTJ3HJL3JXUTK3IY

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On the Rationale and Use of Assertion Messages in Test Code: Insights from Software Practitioners

Anthony Peruma, Christian D. Newman, Joseph Carmelo Averion, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Rocky Huang, Taryn Takebayashi, Veronica Hodapp

arxiv:2408.01751 v1 · 2024-08-03 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WAKD6XBJLSFTJ3HJL3JXUTK3IY}

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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	2026-07-05T08:52:02.407083Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b0143f5c295c8b34ece95ed37a4d5b463fa9b70641997176371e9f77403a916e

Aliases

arxiv: 2408.01751 · arxiv_version: 2408.01751v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.01751 · pith_short_12: WAKD6XBJLSFT · pith_short_16: WAKD6XBJLSFTJ3HJ · pith_short_8: WAKD6XBJ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WAKD6XBJLSFTJ3HJL3JXUTK3IY \
  | 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: b0143f5c295c8b34ece95ed37a4d5b463fa9b70641997176371e9f77403a916e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dd44451d4479e1ccfd0784f079e81942dfade096e24b381059c97237c0412144",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2024-08-03T11:13:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c5823e9d8746f126bd762487aad3fc8a7dd0b46ee279aec4ff2f101412bb7d5d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2408.01751",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}