Susan Potter
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software-engineering


2026-05
Quant Metamorphic Relations for Backtests: Testing the Engine, Not the Strategy

You often don’t know the “correct” output of a backtest. But you know relationships that must hold when you transform the inputs. Increase fees, performance should drop. Scale …

2026-05
Quant The Testing Pyramid, Sideways: Software Testing Practices Analogues in Quantitative Trading

The quant research funnel maps almost directly onto the software testing pyramid. Exploration is customer discovery. Backtesting is unit testing. Statistical validation is integration testing. …

2020-08
Talk Thinking in Properties (and Beyond), Testing edition

Slide deck from conference talk discussing how property-based testing offers a launchpad to discover and practice thinking in properties in your software development activities to test your software …