I guess I've assumed that code thoroughly tested by developers would reduce the time QA spends documenting issues, but that the QA engineer would still have an obligation to manually exercise all the simple test cases. Is this not true?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bret Pettichord Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 9:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] A general question about the role ofscripted tests within the responsibilities of QA. With little developer testing, testers often have to run lots of simple tests to uncover simple bugs. Getting the developers more involved in testing should allow the testers to move to more complex tests more quickly. At 11:21 AM 8/18/2005, Michael Kelly wrote: >Content-class: urn:content-classes:message >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C5A410.E2FD8D11" > >My developer chums and I use Watir as part of our test-driven >development. As such, we're giddy to be able to finally write unit tests >for the UI. But the presence of these developer written UI test scripts >raises questions about what impact, if any, they will have on what our QA >engineer will focus on. It's tempting to suggest that there is a whole >set of functionality that they simply don't have to test manually >anymore. But clearly this is just wrong, wrong, wrong. The developers >will only write tests for the things they think of, and we all know that >developers tend to be optimistic about their code. In addition, the unit >tests themselves can have flaws that cause a test to pass when the code is >not, in fact, functioning properly. > >So, it seems that we still need the QA engineer to do a full manual QA >pass on the software. At what point do these scripts allieviate some of >the QA engineer's manual testing burden? > >Thanks for your thoughts, > >-=michael=- > >-- >Michael Kelly >Sr. Software Engineer >Eleven Wireless Inc. - The Possibilities are Wireless ><http://www.elevenwireless.com/>http://www.elevenwireless.com ><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = >"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Wtr-general mailing list >[email protected] >http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general _____________________ Bret Pettichord www.pettichord.com _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
