Continuous Testing & Automation
Suites that people believe. Fast enough to gate a pull request, reliable enough that a red build gets investigated instead of rerun.
What this covers
Four pieces of work. The first two account for most of the change, and the order is not optional.
Suite triage
Every test measured on the only thing that matters — whether it has ever caught something real — before anything is written or deleted.
Flake removal at the source
Shared fixtures, implicit waits and unseeded clocks fixed properly, so retry logic can come out of CI rather than hide the cause.
The right test at the right layer
Moving assertions down the pyramid where a cheaper test can make them, and deleting the ones a layer below already covers.
Pipeline design
A short gate on every change, a fuller pass on merge, and the slow end-to-end work where its runtime is affordable.
How an engagement runs
Three stages, twelve to twenty weeks, designed to end.
- Stage 01
We read your CI history first
Ninety days of runs, per test: pass rate, runtime, flake count. The suite tells you what it is worth before anyone opinions at it.
- Stage 02
We cut, then build
Deletion comes before authoring. Adding coverage on top of a suite nobody trusts buys nothing.
- Stage 03
We hand over the practice
Pairing and review until your engineers are making the same calls without us in the room.
What you get
What changes once the suite is worth reading again.
- Pull-request feedback in minutes rather than hours
- A flake rate low enough that a red build is a signal
- A CI bill that matches what the suite is actually worth
A case study
What this looked like when a team actually had the problem.
Start where it hurts most.
Tell us what this looks like in your delivery and we'll say what we would do first — and whether it needs us at all.