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Automated testing and release engineering

Release engineering is the practice that makes shipping software routine: automated tests that run on every change, environments that match production, and a pipeline that deploys with a rollback. Hexploits puts this in place for its own builds from day one, and retrofits it to systems that were built without it.

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Who this is for

  • Teams where releases are rare, manual and stressful.
  • Businesses that have been burned by a regression reaching customers.
  • AI vendors whose enterprise customers ask how changes are tested.

What you get

Deliverables, not slogans. Each one appears in the statement of work.

  • Unit, integration and end-to-end tests, run on every change and blocking the merge.
  • A pipeline that builds, tests, scans dependencies and deploys with zero downtime.
  • Environments as code: development, staging and production that match.
  • Feature flags for gradual rollouts, and a rehearsed rollback.
  • Quality metrics: coverage of critical paths, failed deployments, time to recover.

Our engineers work across the major languages, frameworks and cloud platforms. We build on the stack you already run, with technology choices explained in writing before work begins.

How it is delivered

The same four stages as every Hexploits engagement, applied to this capability.

  1. Stage 1

    Baseline

    Current release process, frequency, failure rate and recovery time, measured.

  2. Stage 2

    Harness

    Tests around the critical paths first, so the highest-risk changes are covered soonest.

  3. Stage 3

    Pipeline

    Automated build, test and deploy, with a rollback that has been used at least once on purpose.

  4. Stage 4

    Operate

    Metrics reported monthly; the harness grows with the system under managed support.

How success is measured

Every engagement agrees its measures and the measurement period in writing before work starts.

  • Release frequency and lead time for a change.
  • Change failure rate and time to restore.
  • Regressions reaching users, trending to zero.

Proof

Case studies with numbers, and reviews linked to Google where they were left there.

98%Faster page loads

Gradvisor · Charity · 8 weeks to production, then ongoing

98% faster page loads and a 12% smaller cloud bill for a UK careers charity

12% lower cloud cost · 2 days to ship a change
75%Under the original budget

swarmd.ai · Software vendor · 6 months

Enterprise AI control plane delivered in six months at 75% under budget for a UK software vendor

75% ahead of the original timeline · 6 months from blank page to paying enterprise customers

  • Director, Gradvisor

    “Fantastic company and our development partner for Gradvisor, a social mobility careers platform with national ambitions. Extremely responsive and mission-oriented. Cameron owns any shortfalls humbly - rare for IT providers. Thinks like a client too.”

    Tushar PrabhuDirector, GradvisorRead the review

  • Director, Lothbury

    “Top quality delivery, and reasonable price. Will be using again.”

    Peter DentonDirector, LothburyRead the review

Questions we get asked

Can you add tests to a system that has none?
Yes. We start with the paths that would hurt most if they broke, using end-to-end tests that do not require the code to change, and work inward.
Which tools?
Yours, where you have them. Otherwise GitLab CI or GitHub Actions, Playwright for end-to-end tests, the native test framework for the language, and Terraform or Helm for environments. We are tool-agnostic; the practice matters more than the product.
How do you avoid breaking production during the change?
The pipeline is built alongside the existing process and takes over one step at a time, with the old process available until the new one has proved itself.

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