Pipeline Defense QA Tower Defense

Test Layers

Unit Test 1

$50 · Fast fire · Short range

Destroys off-by-one bugs (x3 dmg)

Cypress 2

$200 · Fast · Short-mid range

Retries flaky misses. Strong vs unit/interface.

Selenium 3

$250 · Slow · Mid range

Interface specialist. High flakiness, retryable.

Playwright 4

$350 · Parallel · Mid range

Fires at 2 targets simultaneously.

Postman 5

$180 · Fast · Short-mid range

Best vs floating point and silent failure bugs.

Integration 6

$150 · Medium · Mid range

Best against floating point and permission bugs.

DB Test 7

$280 · Slow · Short range

Destroys race condition and state mutation bugs.

E2E Test 8

$300 · Slow · Long range · SPLASH

Handles race conditions. AOE splash + slows.

Docker 9

$450 · Freeze · Mid range

Isolates bugs for 2s. Destroys permission esc.

Perf Test 0

$400 · Slow · Long range · SPLASH

AOE damage. Best vs boss and megaboss.

AI Assertion A

$500 · Smart · Max range

Catches timezone and silent failure bugs.

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AI Triage ($200) T🩺 Triage
$200

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Status

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