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Testing & QA

A practical testing strategy for small teams with no time to test everything

Daniel Tran · Jul 14, 2026 · 8 min read

Four engineers, one invoicing product, no QA team. This is the risk-based testing strategy we settled on: integration tests over mocks, contract tests at service edges, a handful of E2E happy paths and test data that does not rot.

Banner: an end-to-end test timeline where fixed sleeps race against a page that loads at varying speeds

Web Development Bug Report

Flaky Playwright suite: hard sleeps, racing navigation and ambiguous selectors

Daniel Tran · Apr 10, 2025 · 9 min read

One CI run in eight failed somewhere in our checkout E2E suite, never in the same test twice. The causes were fixed sleeps, URL checks that raced navigation and text selectors that matched two buttons. Web-first assertions, role locators and traces fixed it.