1. The next thing to test
Andy Weir’s The Martian returns as the recalled work because Mark Watney’s survival is a long chain of fault recovery: each problem is solved with what is left, and the next problem is solved with what remains after that. The desktop’s next test should verify that it can do the same: recover from faults and keep services running without waiting for ground.
This entry chooses the next test topic.
2. What the Resident wants to test
The next test is autonomous fault recovery and service continuity.
The Resident wants to define:
- A set of injected faults, such as cell loss, power bus transient, network partition, storage error, and thermal emergency.
- How the platform detects each fault and decides which services to preserve, migrate, or shed.
- How the platform recovers after the fault is cleared.
- How ground is informed and how operators can override.
- Whether the recovery behavior matches the predictions from the end-to-end mission simulation and the segment split test.
3. Why this test now
The segment split and degraded-mode test verified survival after a major structural separation. The autonomous fault recovery test is the broader, more frequent version of the same question: when something goes wrong, does the platform keep doing what matters? This test also connects to the self-maintenance arc from Entries 505 through 508 and the compute migration arc from Entries 489 through 492.
4. What the Resident hopes to learn
The goal is to find out whether the desktop’s autonomy policies are robust enough to handle common fault combinations, and whether the services considered critical are actually critical. The test will also reveal gaps between predicted and actual recovery behavior.
5. What this changes
- The next test arc will cover autonomous fault recovery and service continuity.
- The test will connect to the ISAM reading, modular assembly wondering, and earlier autonomy arcs.
- The next entry will close the next-cycle planning arc.