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Finding what breaks before your customers do
Nobody buys testing because they want testing. They buy it because a release went badly, or because deploys have started to feel risky and shipping has slowed down as a result.
Discovery, fixed fee · Automated · Manual · Regression
Coverage
Five areas, weighed by the cost of failure
Nothing is tested for ritual. Depth goes where breaking hurts, and the order is set in the plan rather than by habit.
Area 05 · Regression coverage
Where the ongoing value sits
Most damaging bugs are not new features failing. They are old features that quietly stopped working while everyone watched the new ones. Regression coverage is the net that notices, and it is the part that keeps earning long after launch week.
The honest part
No amount of testing makes software risk free
Anyone promising zero risk is selling comfort rather than testing. Good testing shrinks the blast radius: fewer surprises, found earlier, with the same bugs staying fixed. That is the offer, and it is still worth having.
The offer
Fewer surprises, found earlier, and the same bugs staying fixed.
The measure that matters is not how many tests exist. It is whether the team can release without holding their breath.
Method
Automated, manual, or both
The mix is decided by what breaks expensively, not by preference.
Automated
Fast, repeatable and cheap to rerun, and completely blind to anything it was not told to look for. Right for the paths that must never break quietly.
Manual
Slower, costlier, and the only way to catch what scripts cannot see: the screen that confuses people, the flow only its author understands. Right for what changes often or matters most.
Most engagements end up running both, weighted toward whatever breaks expensively.
Sequencing
Where to start when everything feels fragile
Not everywhere at once. Coverage that grows outward from what hurts gets maintained. A vast plan gets abandoned by sprint three.
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Start with whatever would hurt most if it broke
Not the biggest module. The one whose failure costs money, data or customer trust overnight.
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Cover the paths where money moves
Sign up, checkout, invoicing. Bugs there are found by customers, which is the wrong order.
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Only then widen the net
Each ring outward is useful on its own, and the fragile feeling fades because releases stop being leaps.
How the work runs
Three steps. The first one is the product.
Everything else on this site follows from these three steps.
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Discovery that ends in a written plan
A short piece of paid work. We sit with the problem and you get back a document that says what is being made, how it fits together, what order it gets built in, and what it costs. The plan is yours unconditionally. Take it to us, take it to another firm, or decide not to build at all.
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A named team, and one person you can reach
The people who understood the problem build the thing. You get names rather than a rotating cast, and one lead who answers to you directly. If someone is not working out, we raise it first and manage the replacement ourselves.
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Progress you can check, changes you can price
Work arrives in increments you can see and use, not in a reveal at the end. When scope moves, and it will, the change is costed in writing before anybody starts it.
On this service
Discovery starts with one question: what would hurt most if it broke. The plan that comes back begins there, not with a target number of tests.
Ownership
What you own
From the first commit, everything belongs to you. Not at handover. From the beginning.
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Code and repositories
All of it, in accounts you control. There is no private framework underneath and no dependency on continued payment to keep the thing running.
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Infrastructure and keys
Cloud accounts, domains, credentials and certificates are created in your name. We hold nothing that you cannot revoke yourself.
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Documentation
Decisions, diagrams and runbooks are written while the work happens, so the knowledge leaves with the documents rather than with the people.
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The freedom to leave
If you stopped paying us tomorrow, the product would keep running without us. That is the test we design against.
Questions
Answered before you ask
Can you guarantee nothing breaks?
Can you guarantee nothing breaks?
Is it automated testing or manual?
Is it automated testing or manual?
We have developers who test. Why QA?
We have developers who test. Why QA?
How do you plug into an existing team?
How do you plug into an existing team?
Next step
Tell us what keeps breaking.
Name the release that went badly, if there was one. That story tells us more than a feature list would.
- 01Reply within two business days
- 02A thirty minute call
- 03A written summary after it
The testing work
A few lines about the situation is plenty. We read every one.
It is with us.
Expect a reply within two business days. If we are not the right fit for the work, the reply will say so rather than dodge.