“This spec is something more than devs, I tell you. It’s the monster. Devs made it, but they can’t control it.” – with apologies to Steinbeck

Ahh, factory-forged random values for fields of unique constraint. How thee vex me with thine probabilistic usefulness and definite indeterminacy.

Keep thyselves with ephemeral values of algorithmic parameters and hasten from my database.

Factory girls and fabricators, hide only the mundane. Let the uniqueness of preconditions of this specification shine forth for all to see. Be clever not in your data generation, be reproducible and explicit within your own bounds. Do not clammer to be prolific and abusive in unit tests, as the abstraction of records active leaks not into my domain. Sloths thee are, and my build shall be green before my mind is diverted and seduced by the sirens of tweets and blogs.

The avengers akephalos and specjour are mine to wield for making the good amazing, not for making the lame almost tolerable.