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Deterministic Simulation Testing

DRAFT
Published: Feb 28, 2026
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

After shipping reliable software, I learnt that deterministic simulation testing (DST) is at the forefront.

I first described the idea of deterministic software in 2025-04-22

Today, a person asked me: What is the difference b/w chaos testing and DST?

While I did not know how to respond, I now do…

Chaos testing injects failures into live or staging systems to test resilience in unpredictable, real-world environments, while DST uses a controlled, simulated environment to achieve 100% reproducibility of bugs via seeded, deterministic execution