This isn’t an argument against testing before production. It’s an argument against treating a long-lived shared staging environment as your primary safety mechanism. Every software engineer has lived through this exact Thursday afternoon nightmare: The feature was thoroughly tested on…
Your test suite passes. CI is green. Everyone merges their pull requests with confidence. Then a seemingly harmless refactor breaks production. If that sounds familiar, the problem isn’t always a lack of tests. Sometimes it’s the quality of those tests.…
Most Laravel applications do not become difficult to maintain because somebody made one obviously terrible architectural decision. They get there through dozens of small decisions that looked completely reasonable at the time. A controller grows beyond a comfortable size, so…