Testing and Quality
Unit tests, QA strategy, tabletop exercises, and the systems CTOs use to keep software reliable as teams and products scale.
Episodes
S2E40
Preparing for the Worst: Tabletop Exercises, Unit Tests, and Everything In Between
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Brad & Scott discuss TaskRabbit's overnight AWS region migration from us-west-1 to us-west-2, describing the months of preparation, detailed runbook, large war-room call, minor cleanup issues, and why periodic region moves can serve as valuable "hygiene" to relearn and document complex systems while advancing disaster recovery and business continuity. They then explain tabletop exercises as structured incident-response drills designed to uncover gaps in process and documentation, sharing scenario ideas like data deletion, token leaks, cloud outages, ransomware, and internal actors, including an embezzlement case where the perpetrator joined incident response.
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S2E9
Introducing the ADLC: The Agent Development Life Cycle
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Brad & Scott " open with Super Bowl reactions and a meme about non-fans describing plays, then pivot to the ai. com halftime ad, where heavy spending reportedly led to a site crash for a Claude wrapper.
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S1E38
From Specs to Monitoring: A CTO's Guide to QA Best Practices
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Brad & Scott tackle the evolving landscape of quality assurance in web apps . They challenge the notion of QA as just "manual testers at the end," instead framing quality as a chain of practices across the entire SDLC : requirements, technical design, code reviews, unit tests, automation, monitoring, and stakeholder demos.
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