OnPath Testing

OnPath Testing OnPath Testing offers software testing QA services for companies developing desktop, web, and mobile applications.

OnPath Testing helps you create a successful product launch by offering the following software testing services:

* Review your testing needs
* Write a test plan approved by you
* Perform manual and automated tests
* Report issues to your team
* Assist you with your project roll-out and deployment

Our trained testing professionals are active team members and capable of participating in all

product phases. We are experienced in the latest Quality Assurance (QA) methodologies, and integrate smoothly with your development team. We apply our experience and management of offshore resources to offer you extensive technical expertise at the best price.

Adding more tests won’t fix broken quality.If your QA process feels slow, reactive, or unreliable… the problem isn’t eff...
05/11/2026

Adding more tests won’t fix broken quality.

If your QA process feels slow, reactive, or unreliable… the problem isn’t effort. It’s structure.

The Test Pyramid helps you:

- Catch issues earlier
- Reduce reliance on slow UI tests
- Build confidence before release

Read the full blog to learn how to implement it correctly and why this test is still relevant today: https://www.onpathtesting.com/blog/the-test-pyramid-in-2026-still-relevant-still-necessary/

05/11/2026

After almost 30 years in dev and QA, I've learned to spot the warning signs.

When your product manager says "just one tiny feature" on Friday at 4 PM.

When the deadline is "whenever you're done" but also "ASAP."

When stakeholders ask if we can "just skip testing this time" because it's a "simple change."

(Spoiler alert: there's no such thing as a simple change.)

What are your favorite famous last words in software development?

05/10/2026

Sunday reflection: Nearly 30 years building software, and I'm still amazed by how much trust we place in code.

Every app launch, every online purchase, every message sent — we're trusting thousands of lines of logic written by humans like us. Humans who have bad days, make typos, and sometimes forget edge cases.

Yet somehow, most of the time, it all just works.

That's not magic. That's the result of countless QA professionals, code reviewers, and developers who care deeply about getting it right.

To everyone who's ever caught a bug before it reached production: you're the reason the digital world keeps spinning.

Here's to another week of building software that works.

05/09/2026

Saturday morning thought: Why do we call them "bugs" anyway?

Grace Hopper found that famous moth in a Harvard Mark II computer back in 1947, but programmers were calling problems "bugs" even before that.

Maybe because bugs are everywhere, hard to predict, and show up when you least expect them?

Or because fixing one sometimes reveals three more hiding nearby?

Either way, I'm grateful for the metaphor. "Debug" sounds so much better than "de-unexpected-software-behavior."

What's the weirdest bug you've encountered lately?

05/08/2026

Watching a junior developer discover edge cases for the first time is like watching someone realize that Murphy's Law isn't just a saying — it's a software development philosophy.

"What if they enter a negative number?"
"What if they upload a 2GB image?"
"What if they click the button 47 times in rapid succession?"

Welcome to QA thinking, where paranoia is a feature, not a bug.

The beautiful thing? Once you start seeing edge cases everywhere, you can't unsee them. It changes how you write code, design features, and think about user experience.

Edge case awareness: the gift that keeps on giving.

05/07/2026

Product Manager: "How long will testing take?"

Me: "How long is a piece of string?"

PM: "But I need an estimate."

Me: "Give me the requirements."

PM: "We're still figuring those out."

Me: "Then I'm still figuring out the timeline."

This conversation happens approximately 847 times per week across the software industry. The solution isn't better estimation. It's better requirements.

You can't test what you can't define. You can't estimate what you can't scope.

Maybe we should all get t-shirts made.

05/06/2026

Testing confession: I still manually click through critical user flows even when we have automated coverage.

Call it paranoia. Call it old-school. Call it "trust but verify."

Running OnPath for almost 20 years has taught me that humans catch things automation misses. The slight delay that feels wrong. The button that's technically functional but feels awkward. The error message that's accurate but confusing.

Automation tells you if it works. Humans tell you if it works well.

Both matter. A lot.

Your test suite looks solid… Until it fails when it matters.This is why the Test Pyramid is more relevant than ever.It c...
05/05/2026

Your test suite looks solid… Until it fails when it matters.

This is why the Test Pyramid is more relevant than ever.
It creates:

✓ Faster feedback loops
✓ More stable releases
✓ Fewer surprises in production

But not all teams are using it. So, which is the best approach?

Read the full blog to learn how to structure your testing strategy for speed and reliability: https://www.onpathtesting.com/blog/the-test-pyramid-in-2026-still-relevant-still-necessary/

05/05/2026

Hot take: AI-generated code is like getting a recipe from someone who's never actually cooked the dish.

Sure, the ingredients list looks right. The steps seem logical. But somehow the salt measurement is "a handful" and the cooking time is "until it looks done."

We've been reviewing more AI-assisted code lately, and the patterns are fascinating. It's syntactically correct, follows conventions, but often misses the nuanced business logic that makes software actually work.

The future isn't AI replacing developers. It's developers getting really, really good at being AI editors.

Anyone else seeing this trend in their codebases?

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