Evolution of Developer Productivity at Square - Part Four

Square's fourth developer productivity post covers investments in reliability culture and test engineering infrastructure.

• •Quarterly Reliability Operational Reviews united engineering, QA, and customer success teams to identify and address recurring issues
• •Mobile QA was restructured into release engineering and test automation teams, enabling automated crash reporting and independent Beta releases
• •Moving from Firebase Test Lab to an in-house solution cut testing costs 95% and test times 60%, saving $2.5M/year
• •A hardware robotic testing lab replaced pandemic-disrupted dogfood programs, automating 70% of smoke tests with OCR technology