Fail Fast, Save Big: A Smarter CI Testing Strategy
Our CI pipeline was burning through our budget and slowing developers down. The fix wasn't about chasing raw speed, but about finding a better balance by handling failures more intelligently. Here's how we did it.
The importance of regression testing and real world security consequences
Organizations often put a lot of effort around testing their products, they'll put tons of effort in unit testing, integration testing across their UI and API layers but sometimes have a strategy of covering everything. This doesn't always add value to their pipelines because the metric that is being chased is not value which agreeably is a hard thing to measure but rather it's a coverage metric. To start with I don't know if testing strategy is what was happening for TicTocTrack but is something that is definitely highlighted as something that would have been valuable for them. A security vulnerability discovered around a year ago from a fellow MVP and security expert Troy Hunt was patched and then earlier this year I re-discovered it