Re:How Going Back to Coding After 10 Years Almost Crushed Me
by EdwardDiego on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:04AM
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I'm with you on that hill. Good QA have a vastly different mindset to devs - and they're not prone to the unconscious tunnel vision you develop when writing code that assumes a particular approach.
However, I have to say, depending on your product, some of the best damn QA I've worked with aren't writing integration tests, at most they're using SQL to get the DB into an appropriate state, and then they're doing the rest manually, but it's really about their mindset, manual is just the easiest approach for them. Manual encompassing "click on the thing" as well as "hit the endpoint with Postman".
It's their mindset I value most. And some of the best pairing I've ever done is with a QA to write integration tests.
However, I have to say, depending on your product, some of the best damn QA I've worked with aren't writing integration tests, at most they're using SQL to get the DB into an appropriate state, and then they're doing the rest manually, but it's really about their mindset, manual is just the easiest approach for them. Manual encompassing "click on the thing" as well as "hit the endpoint with Postman".
It's their mindset I value most. And some of the best pairing I've ever done is with a QA to write integration tests.