Software Maintenance
Keeping working systems working — including ones built by somebody else.
A small suite people believe beats a large one everybody ignores.
Automated testing is what makes changing working software safe. Without it, teams stop touching code that works, and a system slowly becomes unmaintainable while still functioning.
The value is in what gets tested, not how much. Business rules and edge cases pay back; tests asserting that a component rendered a particular element are maintenance cost dressed up as coverage.
Keeping working systems working — including ones built by somebody else.
Software shaped around the way your business already works, instead of a packaged product you have to reorganise around.
Applications that run in the browser, handle real workloads and hold up when several departments depend on them at once.
People look for this subject using a lot of different wording. These all describe the same thing, and this is the page for all of them.
Enough that a red result is believed the first time. Ten reliable end-to-end tests over the journeys that carry revenue are worth more than two hundred flaky ones.
Yes, and it is a sensible first engagement — it establishes what the system currently does before anyone changes it.
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