Tag: engineering-practices

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• The Question That Fixes Most QA-Dev Conflicts

  Published:Aug 11, 2026 |  at 09:00 AM

  Most friction between QA and developers isn't a skills gap or an attitude problem. It's two people using the word 'tested' to mean two different things.

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• YAGNI: The Feature You're Building Right Now Is Probably Waste

  Published:May 15, 2026 |  at 09:00 AM

  You aren't gonna need it. Four words that kill more bad code than any linter, and a quick tour of the other principles that back it up.

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• We Stopped Fixing Flaky Tests and Started Defining Good Ones

  Published:Dec 12, 2025 |  at 10:16 AM

  Flaky tests are rarely a timing issue. Learn how defining clear test quality standards helped us reduce flakiness and restore trust in our automation suite.

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• Why Your Test Environment Might Be Secretly Burning Money?

  Published:Jun 22, 2025 |  at 01:40 PM

  Discover how a forgotten auto-scaling group led to a massive AWS cost spike, and the lessons every QA and DevOps team should learn from it.

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• The Case of the Missing PR | A Lesson in Deployment Best Practices

  Published:Mar 26, 2025 |  at 01:40 PM

  Learn how a missing PR caused a production issue and discover key QA best practices to prevent deployment mishaps.

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• Breaking the Rules (For the Right Reasons) | A QA Engineer’s Hotfix Adventure

  Published:Feb 25, 2025 |  at 01:40 PM

  A bold QA hotfix deployment straight to production—because sometimes, testing can wait!

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