Teams often over-invest in flaky end-to-end tests and under-invest where it counts. A balanced strategy delivers confidence without the maintenance burden.
Respect the testing pyramid
Fast, cheap unit tests should form the base; integration tests the middle; and a small, high-value set of end-to-end tests the top. Inverting this leads to slow, brittle suites.
Test behavior, not implementation
Tests coupled to implementation details break on every refactor. Test observable behavior so your suite supports change instead of resisting it.
Rajesh Kapoor
Head of Engineering
Rajesh writes about building and scaling great software teams at Ofstech.
