QA Insights & Strategies
Explore our latest thoughts on quality assurance, testing strategies, and scaling engineering teams in the GenAI era.
Foundation — Book IV: The Calculus of Compromise
Master the Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) framework to transform quality from a cost center to a revenue driver. Learn the four categories of quality costs and how to optimize your quality investment.
Foundation — Book III: QA Directors
"Should I fire my QA Director?" Learn when to replace QA leadership vs. fix systemic quality issues. Transform QA from reactive cost center to proactive powerhouse.
Foundation — Book II: Accessibility Lies
WCAG is the canon, axe is the engine—yet the green check is not the truth. Learn why compliance requires governance, design discipline, and human review.
Foundation — Book I: The Three-A Problem
AAA structures tests; BDD defines acceptance. Use AAA inside code and BDD at the specification boundary to scale quality without slowing delivery.
Test Wars – Episode VII: Test Coverage Rebels
Test-coverage numbers feel comforting, but they can hide mission-critical gaps. Shift focus to end-to-end, revenue-driving scenarios; exactly the kind AI can automate.
Test Wars – Episode VI: The Outage Awakens
When minutes of downtime vaporize millions and how smart QA keeps the Force on your side. Learn how to prevent catastrophic outages that cost enterprises $400B annually.
Test Wars – Episode V: The Non-Determinism Menace
As AI and distributed systems push deeper into our pipelines, traditional deterministic tests are losing the battle against flakiness. Learn practical strategies for managing non-determinism in AI-driven environments.
Test Wars - Episode IV: Production Strikes Back
Production finds always a way to break in ways your staging environment never could. Unittests, system tests, and end-to-end tests are not enough. Even monitoring catches the issues late in the game.
Test Wars Episode III: Return of the Dev-Confidence
How to transition to a world where every Pull Request is a deployment to production. The secret sauce to achieving continuous deployment and the lessons learned along the way.
Test Wars - Episode II: AI new hope
AI is making E2E tests faster, more reliable, and easier to manage by specifically tackling issues like flakiness and maintenance. For startups scaling fast, you have the opportunity to do it right from day one.
Test Wars - Episode I: The Rise of Technical Debt
The way you built quality before Product Market Fit will likely become a bottleneck after. Neglecting QA when your team is 5 engineers is the right thing to do, but it will lead to costly technical debt, slower releases, and firefighting instead of building if you keep on that path.