Beta testing. Change course in flight
summary
Product is an electronic reporting platform built on microservice architecture (.NET back end, Next.js/React front end), developed by a ~30-person team and run through a two-month 300 closed beta users campaign. Testing strategy shifts from monolith habits to risk-based pyramid with unit/integration/component tests, load testing (JMeter/Gatling style), security checks and heavy logging. Tooling includes Sentry for error tracking and UX metrics plus partial automation via Cypress rather than full end-to-end. Closed beta exposes unreproducible environment bugs, forces support buildout, and yields actionable product cuts and fixes.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:09Product vision
- 7:46Market analysis
- 11:24User journey design
- 13:10Architecture choices
- 17:40Closed beta prep
- 23:18Testing strategy
- 27:01Beta launch
- 31:08Customer insights
- 33:06Usage patterns
- 36:24Key lessons and process improvements
- 40:01Success criteria
- 40:58Q&A
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