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I’m now a developer but I worked in QA my entire career before. I don’t think coupling QA with development is a good idea. There are two types of QA - black box
by egfx 5y ago
I’m now a developer but I worked in QA my entire career before. I don’t think coupling QA with development is a good idea. There are two types of QA - black box and white box. If your doing white box as in having knowledge of the underlying code then I can see where QA embedded into the engineering team is a good idea but generally I think the whole point of QA is to be black box and not be “tainted” by the code, be close to the consumer instead of the underlying process.
- wreath 5y agoBeing embedded in the engineering team doesnt mean QA engineer knows about the design or the code. When I had one in my team, i found their input very valuable in devising a general test plan to go with the release strategy and ensuring quality standards were met, not by writing tests necessarily, but also things like API or CLIs usability, documentations etc.