The Pre-Production Bottleneck
A pull request (PR) gets merged, code review is complete, unit tests are green, and the feature looks good. But then comes the familiar question: Is this actually ready for production?
Most engineering teams have a checklist: regression tests, security scans, performance validation, and integration checks. The problem is that executing all of this takes significant time. A full regression suite might take one to two hours. For a feature that touched a few files, running everything feels wasteful. But manually picking tests? That’s how bugs slip into production.