Deterministic Audio Fixtures for End-to-End Testing

Designing Robust Spectral Validation for Audio Pipelines Testing audio systems is deceptively hard. Unlike text or structured data, audio pipelines are often lossy, time-sensitive, and highly stateful. Codecs introduce quantization noise, transports introduce jitter, buffers may reorder or drop frames, and decoders may subtly alter timing or amplitude. Traditional byte-level comparisons or…