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If you wrote a test around caching, what should the test prove first?

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python

cached = cache.get(order_id)
if cached is None:
    cached = repo.by_id(order_id)
    cache[order_id] = cached

Solve the symptom with comments only and avoid changing the code shape around caching.That the rule behaves correctly at the boundary cases the lesson is trying to make explicit.Keep caching implicit so the script stays short and hope the next engineer infers the rule.Delay clarity until production traffic reveals the edge case and then patch it under pressure.

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B. That the rule behaves correctly at the boundary cases the lesson is trying to make explicit.

Why

Good tests make the design safer to change because they lock in the meaningful behavior rather than surface-level implementation details.

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