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Situation

An investor asked how you test

The question behind the question is whether the product can keep shipping at this pace without breaking, and whether anyone owns that. A one-page answer with a checklist and a report is enough.

Termsverdict (a one-word release result (pass, pass with findings, fail) with the findings and the checklist version behind it) · two-user test (sign in as one user, create a row, then try to read or change it as another user; pass is nothing comes back) · webhook (a message a provider such as Stripe sends to your server when something happens, like a payment) · fault injection (making a dependency fail on purpose in staging to see what the user and the logs show) · CI (the pipeline that builds and tests every change before it can be merged or deployed) · protected branch (the git branch that cannot be pushed to directly and is the only source of production deploys) · migration (a scripted change to the database schema that ships with a release and should be reversible) · store sandbox (Apple's and Google's test environments where purchases run without real money) · LLM feature (a product feature that calls a large language model, such as an assistant or a summariser)

The situation

Diligence looks for ownership and repeatability. A codebase that is mostly AI-written invites the question more, because reviewers have read the same reports on issue rates. The answer that works is a defined process with evidence: what is tested, by whom, how often, and what happens when it fails.

What to do this week

An ordered sequence from the checklist. Each item links to its pass criterion.

  1. Day 1

    Write the release record for the last release and confirm the deploy path. Two facts investors ask for: who signs, and where deploys come from.

    • DR-05Release notes carry the checklist version and verdictlow
    • DR-01Production deploys are triggered only from the reviewed branch in CIhigh
  2. Day 2

    Run the three items whose failure makes news: secrets in the bundle, secrets in history, tables without policies.

    • SC-01No secret keys in client bundlescritical
    • SC-02No secrets in repository historycritical
    • AC-01Every table exposed to the client has row-level security enabledcritical
  3. Day 3

    Verify webhooks and entitlements, since revenue integrity is the first thing a financial reviewer probes.

    • PY-01Webhook signatures are verified against the raw bodycritical
    • PY-03Plan and entitlement are enforced on the servercritical
  4. Day 4

    Verify a backup restores and rehearse rollback; write the recovery time down.

    • DM-02Destructive changes are gated behind a verified backupcritical
    • DR-02Rollback rehearsed on the previous releasehigh
  5. Day 5

    Fault-inject the critical flows and confirm failures are visible. Then send the one page: checklist version, release record, sample report, and the plan going forward.

    • EH-01Failures surface to the user and to logshigh

Which plan

Coverage audit $1,200 one-time

The coverage audit produces the diligence answer in five business days: flow map, coverage today, risk list, plan. Then Starter or Growth keeps it true.

Limits, inclusions and what is not included.

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What happens without it

A reviewer who has read the CodeRabbit sample knows AI-co-authored pull requests carried 10.83 issues each against 6.45 for human-only ones across 470 open-source pull requests. The question is not whether your code has issues; it is whether a process finds them before customers do.

AI-co-authored pull requests carried 10.83 issues each against 6.45 for human-only pull requests, about 1.7 times more, in a sample of 470 open-source GitHub pull requests (320 AI-co-authored, 150 human-only).

Source: CodeRabbit, 2025-12-17 · verified 2026-09-21

Questions

Investor asked about testing process startup
Send one page: the release checklist version you test against, the last release record with its verdict, the monthly report format, who owns testing, and the limits (what is not covered). The audit page describes how to get that page in five days if you do not have it.
What do investors ask about engineering process?
Who owns quality, how a release is decided, how fast a critical issue reaches a person, how you would roll back, and whether any of that is written down. Each of those maps to a checklist item or a plan guarantee, which is why the checklist is public.
When should a startup hire its first QA engineer?
When the work is more than a defined checklist run per release and a growing suite: exploratory testing of new products, test strategy across many teams, or on-site hardware. Until then, a service with a published scope is cheaper to start and to stop. The first QA hire versus service page has the trade-off.

Start with the audit

5 business days, $1,200, credited to the first month.

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