10.7Quarterly Test Suite Health Review

Every quarter, run a comprehensive test suite health assessment:

1. Coverage gap analysis: Map the last quarter's incidents to test coverage
2. Load-bearing test audit: Identify and protect critical tests
3. Dead weight removal: Retire tests that provide no value
4. Flaky test triage: Fix or remove flaky tests that erode confidence
5. Performance test calibration: Update performance budgets based on production data

Interview Talking Point: "I think of observability as the next evolution of testing, not its replacement. Our pre-production test suite catches the bugs we can predict. Observability catches the ones we cannot. In my approach, every feature launches behind a flag with automated quality gates -- error rate, latency, and business metrics. We run Playwright-based synthetic monitors every five minutes against production from three regions, and OpenTelemetry gives us distributed traces we can write assertions against. When an incident does slip through, I correlate it with our test coverage to find the gap and close it. The feedback loop between production signals and test strategy is what makes a test suite get better over time instead of just getting larger."