Bay Software builds automated testing frameworks and operates QA as a managed service. Regression suites, CI/CD quality gates, performance testing, and ongoing QA retainers where Bay Software tests every release before it ships. Quality assurance is an engineering discipline. Treating it as a checkbox is what causes production incidents.
xUnit.net v2.6.1 (.NET 8.0.11) Discovering: BaySoftware.Tests Discovered: 47 tests ✓ ProjectService. Create_WithValidInput_ReturnsProject (14ms) ✓ ProjectService. Create_WithDuplicateName_Throws (9ms) ✓ ProjectService. GetById_WithUnknownId_ReturnsNull (6ms) ✓ Auth. Login_WithValidCredentials_Returns200 (91ms) ✓ Auth. Login_WithWrongPassword_Returns401 (88ms) ✗ Auth. Login_WithExpiredToken_Returns401 (104ms) Expected: StatusCodes.Status401Unauthorized Actual: StatusCodes.Status500InternalServerError ✓ ProjectsController. Get_ReturnsPagedList (204ms) ✓ ProjectsController. Post_Creates_Returns201 (448ms) ✓ ProjectsController. Delete_WithoutOwnerRole_Returns403 (77ms) ... ───────────────────────────────────────────── 46 passed, 1 failed, 47 total Coverage ────────────────────────────────── Statements 87.4% ████████████████░░░ Branches 81.2% ████████████████░░░ Functions 92.1% ████████████████████
The cost of a bug compounds with distance from its origin. Caught in code review: minutes. Caught in staging: hours. Caught in production by a client: engineering time, client trust, and sometimes revenue. Most engineering teams already know this. Most still ship without automated tests because there's never enough time. What they're actually doing is deferring that cost into the future at compound interest. At some point, the debt comes due.
Bay Software writes tests that will actually catch regressions, not tests that exist to impress a manager with a coverage number. Quality gates in CI/CD mean bad code cannot physically reach production: the pipeline fails and the deployment does not happen. For clients on a QA retainer, Bay Software tests every release as an independent party. Not the person who wrote the feature, not someone who wants to ship and move on.
Worth knowing
Shipping without tests is borrowing from your future self at very high interest.
Manual testing does not scale with weekly release cycles.
High test coverage doesn't mean the right things are being tested.
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Bay Software engineers automated testing frameworks and operates QA as a managed service. Talk to us; we'll scope it directly.
Bay Software is based in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape, South Africa. Engineering software systems and cloud infrastructure for South African businesses, and further afield.