Stonepost Software develops desktop applications and provides quality assurance consulting for teams shipping on a schedule.
Finchory, sorting a morning's shooting into keepers.
Work
The applications set the standard we work to. The consulting holds someone else's release to it.
Software
A photo tool for wildlife photographers. Finchory culls large libraries, scores images for quality, develops raw files and identifies species. It runs entirely on the photographer's own computer, so the library never leaves the machine.
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Test engineering for teams with a ship date: strategy, automated coverage, release validation and defect triage. Selected projects and the reasoning behind them are written up in the portfolio.
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Engagements are scoped to a release or to a standing seat on the team. Any of it can be taken on its own.
What gets tested, at which level, and what evidence counts as proof. Written down so the answer survives the people who wrote it.
Suites that run on every change and fail loudly. A test that can silently skip itself is not coverage, and we treat it as a defect.
A build checked against its own acceptance criteria, with a record of what passed, what failed, and what could not be exercised.
Reliable reproduction steps, an honest severity, and enough diagnosis that the fix does not start with a week of guessing.
Continuous integration, test reporting and the plumbing that makes a green run something you can actually trust.
Desktop and local-first tools built the way we test: scoped tightly, exercised end to end, and shipped without a dependency on someone else's server.
Approach
A passing check is not a result until it has fired against a known failure. We report what was measured, and we say plainly what could not be.
Our applications run on the customer's machine and keep their data there. It is a better product, and it removes an entire class of risk for the people using it.
Strategy, test plans and defects are recorded in a form someone else can pick up. Work that only lives in one person's head is not finished.
Contact
A short description of the product, the release date you are working toward, and where testing stands today is enough to start.