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Cluster

# QA and production readiness

Testing, audits, maintenance and hardening practices for reliable production software.

## Start with the cornerstone

- [**QA for AI-Generated Code**What breaks in code from Lovable, Cursor, Claude Code, and Replit before launch, and the production-readiness checklist we run to catch it.](/blog/qa-for-ai-generated-code/)

## Latest in this collection

### [Agentic Testing vs Test Automation: 2026 Pilot Guide](/blog/agentic-testing-vs-test-automation-2026/)

- **Details:** Delivery & QA · 11 Aug 2026

A vendor-neutral guide to agentic testing: where test agents beat scripts, where they fail, how to run a 30-day pilot, and which metrics justify a rollout.

### [External QA Benchmark: What We Find in the First 30 Days](/blog/external-qa-benchmark-first-30-days/)

- **Details:** Delivery & QA · 15 Jul 2026

A research-backed defect benchmark for permissions, regressions, browser/device combinations, data integrity, AI failures and production escapes, and why no honest universal bug-count median exists.

### [What Software Maintenance Costs After Launch: A DACH SaaS Benchmark](/blog/software-maintenance-cost-benchmark-dach-saas/)

- **Details:** Delivery & QA · 10 Jul 2026

Observed post-launch maintenance cost bands for DACH SaaS: year-one, year-two and year-three spend split across bug fixes, dependency upgrades, cloud, observability, security, compliance, support, product iteration and emergency work, with an interactive calculator.

### [Agile De-engineering](/blog/agile-de-engineering/)

- **Details:** Delivery & QA · 30 Jun 2026

How a movement built to liberate engineers came to erode engineering culture in the enterprise. Alexandre Kotcherguine and Kevin Riedl trace the commercialisation, ritual capture, metric inversion, and craft erosion behind it.

### [Lovable, Bolt, and Replit App Due Diligence](/blog/lovable-bolt-replit-app-due-diligence/)

- **Details:** Delivery & QA · 20 Jun 2026

Before you raise or sell on a vibe-coded app, three questions decide whether it survives diligence: is it safe, do you own it, can anyone maintain it? The security, IP, and investor checklist.

### [The Vibe-Code Production-Readiness Checklist](/blog/vibe-code-production-readiness-checklist/)

- **Details:** Delivery & QA · 16 Jun 2026

A standalone, scannable checklist to run on any AI-generated app before real users touch it. Ten checks ordered by how often they bite, sorted into blocker, high, and cleanup.

## Complete article directory

1. [Agentic Testing vs Test Automation: 2026 Pilot Guide](/blog/agentic-testing-vs-test-automation-2026/) 11 Aug 2026
2. [External QA Benchmark: What We Find in the First 30 Days](/blog/external-qa-benchmark-first-30-days/) 15 Jul 2026
3. [What Software Maintenance Costs After Launch: A DACH SaaS Benchmark](/blog/software-maintenance-cost-benchmark-dach-saas/) 10 Jul 2026
4. [Agile De-engineering](/blog/agile-de-engineering/) 30 Jun 2026
5. [Lovable, Bolt, and Replit App Due Diligence](/blog/lovable-bolt-replit-app-due-diligence/) 20 Jun 2026
6. [The Vibe-Code Production-Readiness Checklist](/blog/vibe-code-production-readiness-checklist/) 16 Jun 2026
7. [What It Costs to Make a Vibe-Coded App Production-Ready](/blog/vibe-coded-software-audit-cost/) 16 Jun 2026
8. [QA for AI-Generated Code](/blog/qa-for-ai-generated-code/) 8 Jun 2026
9. [From Lovable and Cursor Prototype to Production: The Migration Checklist](/blog/lovable-cursor-prototype-to-production/) 8 Jun 2026
10. [Vibe-Coded Software Audit: What Breaks Before Launch](/blog/vibe-coded-software-audit/) 8 Jun 2026
11. [Why Test-Driven-Development pays off](/blog/test-driven-development/) 17 Jun 2024

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