Have you ever found yourself hesitating, your cursor over the “deploy” button, with sweat pouring down your face because you know who will be blamed if everything explodes? Of course you have, deploy anxiety is real. And it's a smell.

If your test suite is green and you're still hesitant to deploy, or if it's red and you don't trust the signal, then your test suite isn't doing its job. Instead of buying confidence, it's creating noise, stress, and worst of all, buying false confidence.

In this talk, we’ll break down what a solid test suite should look like (and what it shouldn't). We'll explore why many test suites fail to inspire confidence, how flaky tests actively make things worse, and how to shift from "We have tests!" to "We TRUST our tests!" (Spoiler alert: chasing coverage numbers is not the answer.)

Takeaways from the talk:

- How to evaluate whether your test suite is actually trustworthy
- Common pitfalls teams fall into when composing their test suites
- How to balance unit, integration, and E2E tests for maximal and most impactful coverage
- Practical strategies for reducing test flakiness and false negatives
- How to turn your test suite into a deploy-day decision-making tool vs a checkbox