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Problem

The Fail Fast entry (patterns/04-principles-and-laws/fail-fast.md) cited https://martinfowler.com/bliki/FailFast.html, which currently returns an HTTP 404 error.

Evidence & Verification

  • Probed https://martinfowler.com/bliki/FailFast.html and confirmed HTTP 404 status.
  • Found live, authoritative PDF reprint of James Shore's IEEE Software column article "Fail Fast" hosted on Martin Fowler's site: https://martinfowler.com/ieeeSoftware/failFast.pdf (returns HTTP 200).
  • Updated prose text and citation entry in patterns/04-principles-and-laws/fail-fast.md.
  • Ran python3 tools/validate-refs.py --strict to update .ref-cache.json.

Impact & Validation

  • Ran tools/check-structure.py, tools/check-prose.py, tools/check-code.py --only fail-fast, tools/validate-refs.py --strict, tools/check-duplicates.py --strict, and make test. All checks passed clean.

Confidence Score

  • Historical novelty: 25
  • Demonstrated integrity risk: 20
  • Evidence supporting the gap: 20
  • Effectiveness of proposed control: 15
  • False-positive/false-negative risk: 10
  • Maintainability: 5
  • Reversibility: 5
  • Total Confidence Score: 100/100 (>= 94/100 threshold)

PR created automatically by Jules for task 6947628262394293372 started by @mjmirza

…icle reprint

Replaces HTTP 404 URL https://martinfowler.com/bliki/FailFast.html with the live,
authoritative IEEE Software article PDF reprint link https://martinfowler.com/ieeeSoftware/failFast.pdf
hosted on Fowler's site, and updates .ref-cache.json accordingly.

Co-authored-by: mjmirza <34001140+mjmirza@users.noreply.github.com>
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…icle reprint

Replaces HTTP 404 URL https://martinfowler.com/bliki/FailFast.html with the live,
authoritative IEEE Software article PDF reprint link https://martinfowler.com/ieeeSoftware/failFast.pdf
hosted on Fowler's site, updates .ref-cache.json, and regenerates family index and catalogue status files.

Co-authored-by: mjmirza <34001140+mjmirza@users.noreply.github.com>
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