Ship a QA script before you polish the dashboard

Pretty charts amplify broken instrumentation. A twenty-minute release script catches more than another board.

Sticky notes and planning materials on a wall

Dashboards feel like progress. They also hide silent misses until a board meeting. We ask clients to run a short path script on staging: open the app, complete the critical action, confirm the payload, confirm the warehouse row.

The script lives next to the taxonomy sheet. When a property changes, the script changes in the same pull request.

secure-route includes these scripts in every Event Path Audit. Teams that keep them current stop discovering measurement debt weeks after launch.