Guide
QA without a QA team
Most startups have no QA engineer, and most shipped bugs are the boring kind a fresh pair of eyes would catch. Here is a routine for a team of one to five that fits in a normal week.
How do small teams do QA without a QA engineer?
Automate the checks that never change (a few unit and end-to-end tests for money and permissions), let AI agents use every preview deploy like new users, and do a short manual pass before big launches. Mimiq covers the middle part: agents in real browsers report what broke, which requests failed or were slow, and where they got stuck, for a few dollars a run.
What actually goes wrong
Not exotic bugs. A form that breaks on a phone, an email link to the wrong domain, a button that throws, a slow endpoint after signup. They ship because the person who built the change tested it once, on the path they built, and nobody else looked.
- A few scripted tests for money and permissions.
- Agents on every preview deploy for new-user paths.
- A 20 minute manual pass before big launches.
- Fix what most agents hit first.
- About $1.90 for a run of 5 agents.
How it works
- 01
Pick your three critical tasks
Sign up, the core job, paying. Everything else is second.
- 02
Script only what must never change
Totals, permissions, data that must not leak. Keep it to a handful of tests you will actually maintain.
- 03
Put agents on every preview
The GitHub Action runs them when the preview is live and comments on the pull request.
- 04
Triage weekly
Fix what most agents hit; ignore one-off oddities unless the browser recorded an error.
Where agents fit
They are the fresh eyes. They will not tell you the tax calculation is off by a cent, and they will tell you the coupon field rejects lowercase codes and the "Continue" button is under the cookie banner on a phone.
Agents are simulated users. They find problems fast and on every build; they do not forecast how many real people will convert, they are not a deterministic regression suite, and they do not install native mobile apps.
Questions
What does it cost a month?
The Builder plan is $19 a month for 500 credits: about 33 runs of 3 agents, or 20 runs of 5. 5 credits an agent.
Do I need CI?
No. You can paste a link in the app whenever you ship, or ask your coding agent to run it.
Keep reading
Let the agents find what breaks first.
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