I’m a QA engineer by background and recently started building solo.
Over the years, I kept seeing the same pattern: many production bugs don’t come from bad code, but from unclear or incomplete requirements — edge cases and assumptions that were never made explicit before development started.
To explore this, I ended up building a small product for myself that takes a feature idea or rough spec and stress-tests it from a test/logic perspective: surfacing hidden assumptions, missing acceptance criteria, and edge cases before any code is written.
I’ve been using it while building my own projects, and it’s been useful — but I’m trying to understand whether this is a problem other engineers or founders actually feel, or if it’s just my QA bias.
I’m curious: - How do you personally validate requirements before coding? - Have you been bitten by logic gaps that “should have been caught earlier”? - Do you rely on docs, checklists, reviews, or something else?
Happy to share more details if useful — mostly here to learn how others approach this.