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Quality, AI, and Developer Relations (DevRel) consulting: product strategy, architecture reviews, training, speaking, and honest feedback.
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The Bad Software Company is a boutique systems-engineering advisory firm.
TestOpsy
TestOpsy offers pragmatic testing strategies, test infrastructure, observability, and chaos testing to keep your systems reliable.
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Full-stack development and design with rapid iterations.
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We help teams make better decisions about software quality, AI-assisted development, developer relations, and engineering systems.
Engagements include advisory work, product and architecture reviews, hands-on workshops, team training, conference talks, and executive briefings.
What is a TestOpsy?
A TestOpsy is a forensic examination of a software project's quality DNA.
Most organizations know they have quality problems. They see production defects, slow releases, unreliable test suites, flaky pipelines, and declining confidence in deployments. What they often don't know is why those problems exist, or where the next failure will occur.
A TestOpsy investigates the systems, processes, architecture, tooling, and feedback loops that shape software quality. Rather than focusing on individual defects, it identifies the underlying conditions that create them.
The Three Pillars of a TestOpsy
Failure Mode Analysis
We identify the technical and organizational conditions most likely to produce defects, regressions, delays, and operational risk.
Cause of Failure Investigation
We examine the factors driving quality issues, including architecture, testing strategy, release practices, team dynamics, and engineering workflows.
Quality Observability
We establish meaningful indicators of quality health so teams can move beyond intuition and monitor risk, confidence, and system reliability over time.
Deliverables
Every TestOpsy includes:
- Current-state quality assessment
- Risk and failure mode analysis
- Findings report with prioritized recommendations
- Executive summary
- Follow-up review session
The goal isn't to find more bugs.
The goal is to understand why quality succeeds, why it fails, and what to do next.
Design & Build
We help teams move from idea to working software with practical product design, full-stack implementation, and fast feedback loops.
Work can include prototypes, internal tools, customer-facing applications, integrations, and production-ready improvements to existing systems.