Everything SQA

Michael Bolton (not the singer), wrote a nice piece on how QA can deliver more than just a “paint by numbers” approach to testing. In context, he describes some of the key influential factors that can push Quality Assurance to the forefront of the minds of development, management as well as the team as a whole.

Michael kindly describes a testers effort as being a part of the fixing phase, rather than the proverbial testing phase, which is true. Our efforts are reported, and builds are delivered, and the cycle (agile or waterfall) is a phase in which we fix everything until it is ready for consumption.

As he Michael concludes:

Ultimately, if you’re a tester, get out of the quality assurance business. Be the best tester you can possibly be: a skilled investigator, rather than a programmer or project manager wannabe.

How apropos to the concept that we are truly investigators. We find what is broken. If not to inform the developer, but to improve the integrity of the application or service we investigate.

Click here to read a worthwhile article. Enjoy.

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