QA, you gotta love them. The have the job of finding issues with the code that engineers write. This should be a very good thing, but there are times where developers view QA as something akin to goblins that live in a haunted forest and should be avoided. This view is totally without merit. This may be related to thinking that it's a Development -vs- QA world with and "end sum" view where for every winner there must be a loser. This thinking is very harmful as developers and QA have the same goal, to deliver great software. Staff that works in QA is the last line of defense between what we code (and test?) before the end user (expecting a fault free experience) uses it. QA's only fault is that they point out our faults, that deep down we already know we have. Developers could preview if we did our own QA screening, but our minds and ego prevent us from doing so. We like to think that when we finish code, it's finished, done, ready, complete, but it&
Just some random (isn't it all) thoughts and doings in my life.