WHY HARNESS ENGINEERING EMERGED AS ITS OWN FIELD

PRACTICE LAB CONNECTION Use the Resume Review Agent lab's run logs, which you will meet in Chapter 68, to practice comparing two harness configurations. A good exercise is to take two compaction thresholds, such as summarizing earlier resume reviews after a small amount of history versus a large amount, and compare the logged results the way an automated harness-optimization experiment would. Write down, before looking at results, what rule you will use to pick a winner. Then check whether your sample is large enough to trust the difference. The prompts below help you design the experiment and interpret the results.