The AutoSpec QA Story
AutoSpec QA exists to help teams understand whether their delivery signals are actually telling them the truth. After years of watching automation initiatives create activity without confidence, we set out to focus on one thing: making sure the workflows a business depends on actually behave as expected, today.
Where it started
Across a wide range of delivery environments, the pattern was always the same. Teams wanted faster releases and fewer production surprises, so they invested heavily in automation.
- Test suites grew quickly but became hard to trust
- Failures were frequent, noisy, and difficult to interpret
- Manual regression quietly returned as the final safety net
On paper, coverage increased. In practice, confidence didn’t.
What was actually going wrong
The tools were rarely the real problem. The deeper issue was that automation was being applied before anyone had clearly agreed what truly mattered, or how they would know if it broke.
- Too many workflows treated as equally important
- Automation built around ease rather than risk
- Green pipelines mistaken for meaningful assurance
Teams weren’t lacking effort or skill. They were missing a reliable signal.
What we do differently
We start before automation. First, we identify the single workflow that would hurt most if it failed. Then we make its expected behaviour explicit, under real conditions.
Only once that is clear do we introduce automation, directly in your codebase, with one job: provide a trusted signal on every change.
- One business-critical workflow, protected end to end
- Clean structure your team can reason about and extend
- Clear feedback in CI that reflects real delivery risk
When platforms make things harder
Not every product sits on a clean, test-friendly web stack. Many rely on vendor platforms or low-code systems that generate unstable interfaces and limit control.
In these cases, we are honest about trade-offs: where browser automation makes sense, where API or lower-level checks provide a better signal, and where a small targeted change can unlock far more value.
We cover this in more detail here: Legacy & Low-Code Platforms.
What this means for delivery teams
Teams who work this way stop treating automation as a side project. Instead, it becomes part of how delivery decisions are made.
- Releases backed by signals people actually trust
- Less time spent chasing noise and flaky failures
- A foundation that can grow without slowing delivery
Where to begin
The simplest starting point is to protect one workflow that matters. In many cases, that protection can be running automatically in CI very quickly, giving teams immediate clarity and a solid base to build from.