QA and production readiness
Testing, audits, maintenance and hardening practices for reliable production software.
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Delivery & QAAgentic Testing vs Test Automation: 2026 Pilot Guide
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.
Delivery & QAExternal QA Benchmark: What We Find in the First 30 Days
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.
Delivery & QAWhat Software Maintenance Costs After Launch: A DACH SaaS Benchmark
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.
Delivery & QAAgile De-engineering
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.
Delivery & QALovable, Bolt, and Replit App Due Diligence
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.
Delivery & QAThe Vibe-Code Production-Readiness Checklist
A scannable first-pass checklist for AI-assisted apps before real users touch them. Ten evidence areas, plus risk-based launch triage and the limits of a generic checklist.
Complete article directory
- Agentic Testing vs Test Automation: 2026 Pilot Guide
- External QA Benchmark: What We Find in the First 30 Days
- What Software Maintenance Costs After Launch: A DACH SaaS Benchmark
- Agile De-engineering
- Lovable, Bolt, and Replit App Due Diligence
- The Vibe-Code Production-Readiness Checklist
- What It Costs to Make a Vibe-Coded App Production-Ready
- QA for AI-Generated Code
- From Lovable and Cursor Prototype to Production: The Migration Checklist
- Vibe-Coded Software Audit: What to Check Before Launch
- What Test-Driven Development Can and Cannot Prove