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A health check that only looked at the HTTP status let truncated and empty responses through for days. The probe that came after measures the body, not the envelope.
For months I looked at the pipeline's green dot as if it were proof. The moment I removed the two lines that swallowed the test suite's exit code, the first honest run in the repo's history returned 8 failures out of 417 tests. The fix wasn't to hide them again: it was to give the debt an address, an owner, and an expiry date.
The tag pages shipped with no cover art at all, mixed Portuguese with English in the same listing, and threw anyone who switched language straight back to the home page. Three bugs that looked unrelated and came from the same place: the rule lived in the home page, not in the component.
Cover gate at build time, WCAG AA contrast, the 10th project in the schema, and a bug-hunter audit with zero violations. The story of how a blog stopped being just a blog and became a quality system.
Broken Pix BR Code, focus trap stealing keyboard input, scroll jumping sections — a deep audit fixed everything at once.
July 2026 was the month my portfolio stopped getting new features and started fixing the ones it already had. A deep audit revealed 10 problems — from Pix to focus trap — and by the end, deployment was more automated than ever.
How end-to-end tests transformed quality and confidence in Dogwalk's development — the real story of a stack that learned to test itself.
From zero tests to 853: how Playwright tests became the quality backbone of Dogwalk/PataPass, what we learned and what changed in the process.