More posts

Field Notes

Five of the Six Were Configuration

Six concrete test management needs were run against the tool we already had. Five turned out to be configuration. The honest migration case shrank to one architectural gap.

· 3 min read

Framework

Your Regression Suite Is a Playlist

A regression suite without a documented selection rule is a playlist. Five criteria — Financial, Contractual, Integration, Non-obvious, Gateway — gave every test case a defensible reason to be in or out.

· 4 min read

Field Notes

Stop Arguing It, Start Counting It

A deploy left a required picklist with only "-- Clear --" in it and took the whole lead-capture journey down. The response was not another bug report. It was a log with hours in it.

· 3 min read

Framework

The Toggle Is the Test Condition

A discount field whose validation changes with a sibling selector, a discount that must be absent before it appears, and a rule enforced only in the UI — three controls where the state change is the test.

· 4 min read

Field Notes

The Cart Is Not the Evidence

Four "free for one month" promotions look identical in the cart. The field that makes them temporary exists only in the billing payload — and a device field that is always populated was always populated with the wrong device.

· 3 min read