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Holistic software investment consulting
Software Delivery
Accelerate quality software development
Product Management
Launch modern product orgs
Legacy Modernization
Renovate legacy software systems
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DevOps
Scale infrastructure smoothly
Upgrade Rails
Update Rails versions seamlessly
Technical Recruitment
Build tech & product teams
Technical Assessments
Uncover root causes & improvements
Case Studies
Solutions
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Accelerate Quality Software
Software Delivery, DevOps, & Product Delivery
Maximize Software Investments
Product Performance, Product Scaling, & Technical Assessments
Future-Proof Innovative Software
Legacy Modernization, Product Transformation, Upgrade Rails, Technical Recruitment
About
About
About
What's a test double?
Approach
Meeting you where you are
Founder's Story
The origin of our mission
Culture
Culture
Culture & Careers
Double Agents decoded
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Great code for great causes
EDI
Equity, diversity & inclusion
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Hot takes and tips for all things software
Leadership
Bold opinions and insights for tech leaders
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Essential coding tutorials and tools
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Software problems are human problems.
We speak humandevelopmentproductDevOpstestingarchitecturedatadesignmarketingoperationsbusinessstrategyvalue

Forget butts in seats minimum viable help. Throw useless strategy decks back over the wall. Hello, holistic problem solving.

Ready to solve a real problem?
Ready to solve a real problem?

Software problems are human problems.
We speak humandevelopmentproductDevOpstestingarchitecturedatadesignmarketingoperationsbusinessstrategyvalue

Forget butts in seats minimum viable help. Throw useless strategy decks back over the wall. Hello, holistic problem solving.

Ready to solve a real problem?
Ready to solve a real problem?

Working with industry-leading clients:

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WE ARE TEST DOUBLE

Our mission is to improve the way the world builds software.

We’re not your typical software consultancy. We’re strategic advisors who also embed with your team to solve hard problems. We're not the cheapest, but if you've been burned by that we can help you recover. We don’t take shortcuts, but we do validate early to accelerate software investment returns.

We’re software investment problem solvers—and that delivers distinctly different results:

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Accelerate quality software delivery

Great software starts with the outcome, clarifies complexity, and leads to a simpler solution. Build the right thing, and build the thing right. We balance speed and agility with testing and maintainable code.

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Maximize your software investment

Great products solve problems that matter. You don’t always need more people to do that. Our small teams of software experts pull on decades of experience to drive business outcomes that matter.

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Future-proof innovative software

Clients from disruptive startups to Fortune 100s trust us to solve hard problems. We embed, listen empathetically, and model best practices. So your team owns that knowledge long after we’re gone.

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SERVICES

We get things done from strategy to execution

We uncover the root causes of problems across the entire software lifecycle—and embed with your team to solve them.

Software Delivery

Facing challenging software problems?

Accelerate software delivery without losing sight of maintainability, quality, and scalability—so you reach your software investment goals faster.
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Product Management

Your team busy but not hitting business goals?

Launch a new product quickly, turn around an existing product, scale your product portfolio, or enable a modern product org.
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Legacy Modernization

Thinking about a big rewrite?

Renovate existing systems safely with our pragmatic approach to automated testing tools. (And we do rewrites, too, when it’s the best option.)
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DevOps

Wasting too much on infrastructure?

Scale sustainably with holistic DevOps approaches to achieve more predictable costs, observable infrastructure, and smoother delivery.
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Rails Upgrades

Facing end of life support on Rails?

Simplify Rails upgrades and avoid risks by relying on our experience updating Rails at the largest Rails codebases around: GitHub, Gusto, and Zendesk.
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Assessments

Searching for the root cause to a thorny problem?

Uncover how to improve your software investment with recommendations based on your unique product, systems, infrastructure, and team.
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Talk to a Double Agent

Not sure what you need?

We’re no stranger to tricky software and product challenges. And we've cleaned up messes left by less-than-stellar contractors. Chances are we can identify the next best step for your situation.
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Technical Recruitment

Hiring top tech talent taking too long?

Build your team thoughtfully with help from technical recruiters who speak software development and product management.
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Value from Day One

Working with Bob, Kevin and the Test Double team has been a great experience. Bob jumped into product at IGS and started providing value day one. Through his coaching, mentoring and actionable advice, Bob was able to elevate our product org as a whole.

Robert Schmidt
IGS Energy

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Scalable & Maintainable

We're not only building this fast, we're building it RIGHT. We're building it to be scalable and highly maintainable while also striking a balance between current optimization and premature optimization.
Katie White
AdaMarie

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Holistic Problem Solving

Hot take: just have Test Double build all your stuff.
Eileen Uchitelle
GitHub

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Dependable Execution

A software project delivered on time. Who would have guessed?!
David Pick
Fast Radius

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Deep Experience

Test Double delivered a performance that in one case doubled our throughput . . . Steve continues to see around corners— identifying gaps in our architecture, proposing and implementing new approaches. I couldn’t imagine this project succeeding without his technical leadership.
Dan Carroll
Clever

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Deep Experience

Test Double just works. I never have to worry about the level of skill and experience. Test Double always has it. I also never have to worry about trying to work their way. Instead, they work in my way—but always seek to improve it.
Fred Lee
Cars

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Empathetic Collaborators

Each and every Test Double agent brings a spirit of empathy, humility, and earnestness to their work. They bring new and exciting ideas to the team without a lot of fanfare or ego. They coach and educate without being corrective or judgmental. They empowered our employees to lead efforts and encouraged them along the way. They became part of the fabric of the team—not them and us, but one team.
Daniel Mackey
Cars

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Holistic Problem Solving

Matt Jones is a rock star. He has taken it upon himself to resolve several thorny issues. Just this morning he spiked out some code that made my request for the team to get a round-trip of a use case done super obvious about how to proceed. Bravo.

Mike Ratliff
CPower

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Dependable Execution

I love Test Double. I’m going to be working with them until I retire.
JC Kirst
Bridgecare

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Recruitment

After one detailed conversation, Anya was able to anticipate our business needs and create a customized approach to recruiting that would work for our team and our industry. We accomplished what we set out to do—and Anya made suggestions for improvements that would directly impact recruitment.
Ashley Criser
m2e

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Holistic Problem Solving

Give Test Double your hardest problems to solve.
Eddie Kim
Gusto

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Deep Experience

Working with the Test Double team was very comfortable. They had deep experience with Rails and jumping into new codebases. They have good communication skills, they’re collaborative and are able to move forward quickly.
Ngan Pham
Gusto

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Holistic DevOps

The Test Double team’s deep understanding of AWS and the DevOps tooling translated into a streamlined project schedule and immediate infrastructure cost savings.
Jason Gilmore
Treehouse

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ROI

Since engaging Test Double, attrition has gone down and morale has gone up. It was a really easy discussion with my finance team to explain why we wanted to keep working with you all.
Katelyn Stein
Betterment

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Holistic Problem Solving

Test Double has been a pleasure to work with, and they’ve been instrumental in revamping our platform. Their work has streamlined our deployments and sharpened our focus on delivering to our customers.
Eddie Tejeda
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CAREERS

Ready to make software better and do your best work?

Since founding the Test Double software consultancy in 2011, our recipe for success has been simple: Find skilled, driven software developers and product managers, then trust them with the autonomy to solve their client’s problems. That’s it.

We were 100% remote long before it was fashionable—and we’re staying that way.

Some of the many benefits of working with us:

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5 weeks flexible time off
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10 paid holidays
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Up to 14 weeks parental leave (8 weeks at 100% of salary)
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Health, Dental, Vision & Life Insurance
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10% Growth Time each week for your professional growth
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OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS

Standard Ruby—Ruby’s bikeshed-proof linter and formatter

We created and maintain Standard Ruby because we appreciate the importance of balancing predictable, consistent code with preserving developer autonomy. Standard Ruby is built on RuboCop with an unconfigurable configuration. What? Unconfigurable!

Find out more on GitHub
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Committed to community

Test Double has a history of engaging in communities we care about, and we’re also proud of the communities we’ve built.

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100% Employee Owned & Certified Evergreen

Community starts with us: We are 100% employee-owned with an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, and we’re a Certified Evergreen business.

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N.E.A.T Community

We created a community with a shared belief in a timeless truth: You can't understand software without understanding people!

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Office Hours

We give back with zero-judgement pairing sessions that are totally free—both virtually and at some of our favorite conferences.

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Software insights

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Developers
Developers
Developers

LLMallard: the low-key AI chat bot you secretly need

The most perfect dev workflow for taking advantage of deeply powerful AI tooling that’s hyper efficient on token usage with minimal API calls—and the perfect pair programming partner.

Daniel Huss
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Product managers
Product managers
Product managers

From brainstorm to breakthrough: How to unlock great ideas through regular brainstorming

Elevate your product strategy with the power of brainstorming. Here's a 'how to' for regular idea sessions that will fill your funnel, influence your stakeholders, energize your team, and help you build your innovation muscle.

Shawn Leitner
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Leadership
Leadership
Leadership

Audentes Fortuna Iuvat: being bold amidst uncertainty

What should businesses do in the face of uncertainty? This is not the first time leaders are dealing with strange economic environments, and it won’t be the last.

Ed Frank
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We’re the team on a mission to improve how the world builds software.

Let’s talk about how to tackle hard software investment problems across the entire product life cycle.

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