QA & Test Automation
Testing is how a team keeps moving quickly without breaking things it already shipped. Without it, every release gets slower and more frightening, because nobody can be sure what the change touched.
How we approach it
Cover the paths that earn money first
Signup, checkout, whatever your product exists to do. Full coverage is a poor goal; covering the routes that must never break is a good one.
Automate the repetitive checks
Anything a person tests by hand before every release is a test that should run itself.
Run it on every change
Tests that run nightly find problems a day late. In the pipeline, they block the change that caused them.
Keep the suite trustworthy
A flaky suite is worse than none, because people learn to ignore red. Unreliable tests get fixed or deleted.
Common questions
What should we automate first?
The paths that would cost you money or trust if they broke — authentication, payment, core workflow — and any check a person currently repeats before every release. Rarely-used admin screens can stay manual for a long time.
How much test coverage do we need?
Coverage percentage is a poor target on its own; it is easy to reach a high number while testing nothing important. Better to ask whether every critical path is covered and whether the suite catches real regressions.
Can you add tests to an existing codebase?
Yes, and it is common. We start with end-to-end tests over the critical paths, which give the most safety per hour on a codebase with no tests, then add narrower tests around the parts that change most often.
Often paired with
Talk it through
Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll tell you honestly whether this is the right way to do it.