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Break Your App and Learn from Real User Testing - Web App Day 21

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Break Your App: Proactive Testing for Web Apps

7:29 with Daniel Montgomery

Actively try to break your app by testing unexpected inputs, incomplete actions, and common failure paths. Learn how deliberate stress testing reveals issues that a happy-path test can miss.

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Stress Test Matrix Prompt

Help me stress test the deployed [app name] flow from sign-in through [the end of your core loop]. 
Create a compact table with test, exact steps, expected behavior, evidence to capture, 
impact if it fails, and whether you can reproduce it with browser tools. 
Cover [the edge cases that matter for your app, such as missing permissions, 
slow or offline networks, service disconnects, duplicate saves, expired sessions, and 
two-user data privacy]. 
Do not change the code yet.

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    Alright, to begin I'm going to give Claude this prompt. 0:00
    Help me stress test the deployed Spotter live-vision flow from sign-in through saved history. 0:01
    Create a compact table with test, exact steps, expected behavior, evidence to 0:07
    capture, impact if it fails, and whether you can reproduce it with browser tools. 0:13
    Cover camera permission, missing or busy cameras, camera switching, zoom and 0:18
    rotation, fast scene changes, weak lighting, slow or offline networks, live 0:23

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