# Test the behaviour the business depends on.

Software quality engineering

Test business workflows across integration, accessibility, performance and regression scenarios.

## Coverage tied to business behaviour

Illustrative workflow.

- Critical journey: The task a customer must complete
- Failure path: Invalid, repeated and interrupted requests
- Release evidence: Results linked to a versioned change



## What needs attention in your system?

Select the areas you want to discuss. The HTML page can download your selections.

- [ ] Risk based coverage: Prioritise tests around important journeys and expensive failure modes.
- [ ] Automation boundaries: Use unit, integration and end-to-end checks where each provides useful evidence.
- [ ] Release confidence: Connect defects, test results and remaining risks to the decision to release.

## Test the behaviour that matters

Build a quality strategy around business impact and change risk. Combine focused automation with exploratory work so the suite finds meaningful regressions without becoming a maintenance burden.

Illustrative scenario, not a customer case study.

A portal and several integration clients update on different schedules.

Separate additive changes from breaking changes. Validate requests at the boundary, document optional fields and use consumer examples to verify compatibility before deployment.

Verification: Run contract checks against representative supported client versions and malformed payloads.

## Test the risks the release introduces.

### Risk based coverage

Prioritise tests around important journeys and expensive failure modes.

### Automation boundaries

Use unit, integration and end-to-end checks where each provides useful evidence.

### Release confidence

Connect defects, test results and remaining risks to the decision to release.

## What your team receives

Included scope agreed before delivery.

- Quality strategy: Risk-based coverage and the appropriate test boundaries.
- Verification suite: Focused automated checks and documented exploratory work.
- Release evidence: Results, known limitations and unresolved acceptance risks.

## Should every check be an end-to-end browser test?

No. Test rules close to their implementation, contracts at integration boundaries and a focused set of critical journeys through the browser.