About indispensable QA abilities🔥
Hello, Indie Hackers! 👋
Recently I was asked what the responsibilities of QA engineers in my company are.
I said that it’s not only about how QA engineers do their work.
The most important thing is that Quality Assurance (QA) is an indispensable part of the development process.
The main task of any QA engineer is to help create a quality product. Their job is not just finding bugs and not just testing. The main task of the QA engineer is to prevent defects and, therefore, ensure the high quality of the development process and its results.
Software products require QA engineers if they want to:
✔️Supervise the development process.
✔️Prevent system errors before users find them.
✔️Ensure the quality of the product.
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https://blog.y-sbm.com/2z1tw 👈
Do you have QA engineers on staff or delegate quality control to specialized companies? Please, share your experience. I want to know your thoughts on the subject.
Functional testing is a really important aspect of testing, it will provide a fairly extensive feedback.
However, this method does not allow you to completely debug the product. I don't think any testing method should be rejected.
For me, you should use two types of testing, both manual and automated, with more important information being available.
Yes, but it is quite expensive, although I think it's worth it.
Probably one of the fairly good methods is already alpha and beta testing, then users can already get acquainted with the product and can develop a certain client base.
It depends on whether the testing is open or closed, although open testing does not require cost.
Aptly told about non-standard moments in the work. Such problems can be detected mainly when someone provides information from users.
This is usually a risk, because not every user will be honest and want such information, especially when it gives him some advantage.
Truth. Testing the final product is very important as it helps to identify malfunctions and to establish a stable product performance.
Also important is the identification of faults in the product's user data protection system.