ClueCon Weekly with Bob Fornal [Sn. 15 Ep. 24]: CI/CD Testing That Actually Works

ClueCon Weekly with Bob Fornal [Sn. 15 Ep. 24]: CI/CD Testing That Actually Works

In this episode of ClueCon Weekly, host Jon Gray sits down with Bob Fornal, Senior Solutions Developer at Leading EDJE, to talk about the real impact testing has on a DevOps CI/CD pipeline and what happens when tests are missing, brittle, or quietly turned off.

Bob breaks down how a healthy pipeline should flow (requirements → code → unit tests → integration → release automation), why flaky tests can wreck continuous integration, and what it looks like when organizations rely too heavily on manual checks. He also shares a great real-world story where visual regression testing (using tools like Playwright) caught issues across multiple sites and saved hours of rollback work.

The conversation also gets into:
🔹Where teams should start when they have zero testing today
🔹The tradeoffs between developer-owned testing vs a dedicated QA team
🔹How company culture affects quality (and why “ship yesterday” can backfire)
🔹What AI is changing in engineering workflows—and why it pushes testing forward, not out of the way

If you’re trying to make your releases more stable, your pipeline more reliable, and your team less dependent on heroics, this one’s for you.

ClueCon Weekly with Bob Fornal