A better home for your automated test results

In my previous job, I was tasked with creating the test automation for a SaaS startup, from scratch. It was a 10-person team working in a share-office. Over the next four years it would double in size each year and then got acquired by a fortune-100 company. The test automation story went from zero to a full test automation platform, with a test results database integrated with JIRA, automated test runners that auto-scale, and an interface where any developer could run their tests on demand, on any branch. This was more than a job. It was a passion project and I'm grateful for that experience. I am proud of what I achieved in those four years, initially solo and later with a small test automation team that was eventually folded into the dev team as demand for tests increased. We were running 30,000 tests per month, and yet the automation infrastructure was still just getting started. Two features in particular taught me what developers actually want from test tooling. The first was the