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Dec 10, 2014

The QA Mindset →

In QA, there is a distinct moment. It comes once you're deeply familiar with your product or product area; it comes when you're lost in your testing, and it comes in an instant. You find a problem, and because of your strong context about your product, you definitely know: Something is seriously wrong here.

I learned today that the root causes of a HTTP 404 response in one of our applications are not distinguished at all. Thus, the team literally has no idea which one of the causes is the underlying issue. I don't need strong product context to know that the ability to detect failures and the ability to understand failures is the most important part of software development. Good software without a good QA mindset isn't good software.

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H. Parker Shelton

I'm just an ordinary thirty-something who's had some extraordinary opportunities. I graduated from Johns Hopkins University, work for Microsoft in Silicon Valley, code websites and applications, take the occasional photograph, and keep a constant eye on current events, politics, and technology. This blog is the best of what catches that eye.

 
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