Boottify's Testing Philosophy — TDD, Playwright, and Systematic Debugging

Testing isn't optional. Here's how we do it at Boottify.

TDD WORKFLOW

The RED-GREEN-REFACTOR cycle is enforced at every commit:

1. RED — Write a failing test that defines the behavior
2. GREEN — Write the minimum code to make it pass
3. REFACTOR — Clean up without changing behavior

TOOLS

• Playwright — End-to-end browser tests for auth flows, routing, and UI interactions
• Node Inspector — Chrome DevTools Protocol for server-side debugging
• DebugPy — Remote Python debugging for backend services

4-PHASE SYSTEMATIC DEBUGGING

When a bug appears, we don't guess. We follow a process:

1. Understand — Reproduce the bug, capture the exact state
2. Isolate — Narrow to the minimal reproduction case
3. Fix — Write a test first, then fix the root cause
4. Verify — Run the full test suite, check for regressions

DOG FOODING

We use Boottify to test Boottify. Exploratory QA runs on every deployment. The dogfood skill runs automated checks against live endpoints — auth, billing, deployment, and marketplace flows.

Testing catches what you can't predict. The bugs you find in production are always the ones you didn't test for.