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> Yes, tests are expensive Yeah, but so is manual testing. You can save a fortune by eliminating the entire QA team!
by commandlinefan 4y ago
> Yes, tests are expensive
Yeah, but so is manual testing. You can save a fortune by eliminating the entire QA team!
- justin_oaks 4y agoI know this is partially a joke, but for those who may be taking it seriously: The QA team's main value shouldn't be just repeating the testing that dev team should do in unit testing. QA's value should be to do exploratory testing. This involves trying to break things in as many ways as possible and finding things that the dev team didn't think of. Is there a text field? Try putting Chinese characters and emoji in it to see what happens. Try to add null characters. Try adding the entire text of "War and Peace". Can I upload files? See what happens when I try to upload a 1TB file, or millions of tiny files. Should the dev team be writing unit tests to handle these cases? Sure, but it helps to have someone who is explicitly trying to find all the cases the dev team missed.