Confidence that survives the next deploy.
Automated tests, load testing and accessibility checks wired into the pipeline, so that shipping on a Thursday afternoon is an ordinary thing to do.
- Every commit
- suite runs, red blocks merge
- Before launch
- load tested at real peak
- Every bug
- earns a regression test
Who this is for
You probably need this if…
01
Nobody wants to deploy on a Friday
That reluctance is information. It means the team does not actually believe the software is safe to change, and they are usually right.
02
Fixed bugs come back
The same issue reappears two releases later, because the original fix was never protected by a test that would have caught the regression.
03
It was fast in testing
And then fell over at nine in the morning on launch day, under a load that nobody had ever simulated beforehand.
What this covers
The work, in detail.
7 capabilities
01
Automated test suites
Unit and integration coverage concentrated where the logic and the money are, rather than chased as a percentage across the whole codebase.
02
End-to-end testing
The handful of user journeys that must never break, run on every commit in a real browser rather than in a mocked approximation of one.
03
Load & stress testing
Behaviour under your actual peak, established before launch rather than discovered live during it with everybody watching.
04
Accessibility testing
Automated axe passes plus manual keyboard and screen reader checks, both sitting inside the definition of done.
05
Regression protection
Every bug fixed gets a test that fails without the fix in place. The same bug should not be able to come back a second time.
06
Type safety
TypeScript end to end, with types generated from the schema so that the database and the interface cannot silently disagree with each other.
07
Release gating
Typecheck, lint, tests and build all green before a merge. Not a convention people remember, a rule the pipeline enforces.
How we approach it
Positions we actually hold.
Opinions cost something to have. These are the ones we would argue for on your project, including where they make the work slower.
01
Test what breaks, not what is easy
Coverage percentage is easy to raise and easy to game. We concentrate tests where a failure costs money or costs trust.
02
Every bug earns a test
Reproduce it as a failing test, then fix it. The suite grows in exactly the places that have already proven themselves fragile.
03
The pipeline enforces it
A red build blocks the merge. Standards that depend on somebody remembering them are standards that quietly decay over a year.
04
Load test before, not after
Establishing behaviour at peak is a day's work beforehand. Discovering it afterwards is a full incident with customers watching.
Technology
What we work with.
Defaults, not requirements. If you already run something else and have a team who knows it, we work in yours.
- Unit & integration
- Vitest, Jest, typed fixtures
- End-to-end
- Playwright, real browsers, run in CI
- Load
- k6, synthetic peak profiles
- Accessibility
- axe-core, keyboard and screen reader passes
Where this shows up in delivery
- Sill carries its own test suite, so every engagement starts with the foundation already covered rather than entirely untested.
- Every system we operate deploys continuously, which is only possible because a red pipeline actually stops the merge.
- Accessibility checks run in CI on this site and on client work alike.
Bought as part of
Web Applications
Fixed-price project
Mobile Apps
Fixed-price project
Legacy Modernisation
Fixed-price project
Managed Support
Monthly retainer
Dedicated Teams
Monthly retainer
This practice is never sold on its own. It is quoted inside one of the engagements above, as part of a single number.
Proof
Where we have actually done this.
Projects we designed, shipped and wrote up. Each one names the decision that was genuinely hard to get right.
Questions
What people ask about quality & testing.
- What coverage percentage do you target?
- We do not target one. A high number across trivial code is worth less than thorough tests on billing and permissions. We will tell you what is covered and why those parts were chosen.
- Is testing an extra line item?
- No. It sits inside the fixed price. A build without tests is cheaper to deliver and considerably more expensive to own, and we would rather not sell you that trade.
- Can you add tests to an existing codebase?
- Yes, starting with the paths that have broken before. Retrofitting coverage everywhere at once is rarely worth the money; covering the genuinely fragile parts almost always is.
- Do you do manual QA as well?
- For the things automation is bad at: visual judgement, real-device behaviour, and accessibility with an actual screen reader. The repetitive checks are automated so that people spend their time on the rest.
Related reading
Written on this, by us.
How We Work · 6 min read
The Test Suite That Earns Its Keep
Coverage percentage is easy to raise and easy to game. Here is where tests actually pay for themselves, and why nobody on your team wants to deploy on a Friday.
Engineering · 6 min read
Design for the Tenth Hour, Not the First Minute
Software that demos beautifully and software that is pleasant to use all day are pulling in opposite directions. If your users live in the tool, optimise for the tenth hour.
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