Testing ActivityPub integration
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Topic
QA
A collection of 11 issues
QA skills besides testing
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Where are the unknown unknowns?
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
What makes a good software QA person?
We have a few quirks, a hint of obsessive compulsive disorder, and we’re brutally honest. We never lie to our developers. We don’t sugar-coat, soft-shoe, back-peddle, exaggerate, or outright lie. We can’t. Our job requires us to be utterly truthful. We’ll tell it to you straight,
What NOT to say to your QA
It's a feature, not a bug.
But why would you even do that?
QAs are just failed developers.
My code is perfect, I don't write bugs.
You're not supposed to do that in the app.
It's a design error, not a bug.
The Red Team Rules for Software QA
I found the Original 12 Red Team Rules recently (there's profanity in the list), and a lot of them are relevant to life as a software quality advocate/analyst/engineer/assurance person with a bit of modification.
Rule 1: Know when the test will be over.(Was: Always
Your software project might have a QA if...
Some of these are mine, some I lifted from the company Slack channel for Quality Advocacy.
* You're used to finding Cyrillic or Greek or Mandarin in the database
* There's code in place to stop you copying War and Peace into the app multiple times
* You know
Sh*t my QA says
There is a bug, I just haven't found it yet.
Well, it's broken on my machine!
In the Danish version of Windows, if you click really fast, the app just crashes.
It doesn't work when I put Cyrillic text in. Or Greek, Hebrew, or
Words to a new software QA
We're not after the developers. We're after their code. It's not personal.
If they didn't want us to find the bug, they shouldn't have written it in the first place.
QA starts with the requirements, if those are vague, the