Test Designer: Crawl, Walk, Run

The project

Writing automated regression tests is slow and technical, which keeps a lot of teams from doing it at all. Test Designer set out to remove that barrier: a user could enter a rough outline of what a test should check, and the Rainforest crowd would convert it into a fully automatable test, returning a batch within 48 hours.

The product goals were direct:

• Make test writing genuinely easy, even for people who had never automated a test
• Let users convert existing tests into the Rainforest format instead of starting over
• Return a usable batch of tests within 48 hours

The "crawl, walk, run" framing was the delivery strategy. Rather than designing the most ambitious version up front, we shipped a simple, trustworthy first version, watched how people actually used it, and expanded the capability in stages.

My role

I was the product designer on Test Designer. I designed the end-to-end experience for outlining a test, owned the interaction patterns across each phase of the rollout, and iterated on the flow as we learned what made the hand-off to the crowd reliable.