Clean code and non-flaky tests
If tests are flaky, engineers stop trusting CI, and delivery becomes guesswork. We reduce flakiness by making tests deterministic and actionable—and we improve architecture so firmware stays maintainable.
Typical deliverables
- Flakiness triage: root causes, fixes, and guardrails
- Test harness improvements: timeouts, determinism, isolation
- CI hardening: faster feedback and higher signal-to-noise
- Codebase cleanup: architecture, conventions, review practices
What changes when quality is fixed
- Engineers trust CI again and stop re-running pipelines
- Regressions become rare and diagnosable, not “random”
- Reviews speed up because changes are smaller and cleaner
- Upgrades become feasible because patch debt is reduced
How we increase signal-to-noise
- Pre-commit automation (formatting + static checks) so quality issues don’t hit CI late
- Deterministic tests: isolation, explicit timeouts, and removing timing-dependent behavior
- Cleaner builds: warning cleanup and log-noise reduction so real issues stand out
- CI hardening for real constraints (runner disk, toolchain differences, and environment drift)