Automated testing that tells you something true, on the paths where being wrong is expensive.
Book a consultationThere are two common failure modes. The first is no automated tests at all, so every release is verified by hand and confidence comes from hope. The second is a large suite chasing a coverage percentage, slow to run and full of tests that break whenever anything is refactored, which teaches everyone to ignore red builds.
A useful suite is smaller than the second and far more deliberate than the first. It covers the paths where being wrong costs real money, runs fast enough that people keep it, and fails only when something is genuinely broken.
Which paths, if they broke, would cost you money, customers or a regulatory problem. Those get covered first, and some things deliberately do not get covered at all.
Wired into the build so a failure blocks the release rather than being noticed afterwards.
Fast unit tests where they fit, integration tests where the risk actually lives, and a small number of end-to-end tests rather than a slow, fragile pile of them.
Written so that reading one tells the next engineer what the system is supposed to do.
Where would a defect actually hurt, and how would you find out.
Start with the highest-consequence paths rather than whatever is easiest to test.
Make it run automatically and block what should be blocked.
Delete tests that only break during refactoring. A suite nobody trusts is worse than none.
Samloryx maintains an automated suite on its own platform that must pass before anything deploys, including tests that enforce editorial and compliance rules rather than only code correctness.
Web applications built to work on a mid-range phone on a bad connection, because that is how most South Africans will use them.
Used where it genuinely beats ordinary software, and not used where it does not.
Deployments that are small, cheap and unremarkable to run, because infrastructure should be the least interesting part of your system.
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