Re:How Going Back to Coding After 10 Years Almost Crushed Me
by zimpenfish on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:34AM
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> The tests are written first
That surely implies a specification which, in my experience, is a rare thing in these Agile days.
> the QA engineer
In the last 10 years of contract and perm jobs, only once have the QA people actually written tests (and that was largely translation of an existing manual suite to a node-based automatic runner.) It's pretty much always been "these are the things the devs/product manager/pm wants to test for these changes, please test those and approve".
That surely implies a specification which, in my experience, is a rare thing in these Agile days.
> the QA engineer
In the last 10 years of contract and perm jobs, only once have the QA people actually written tests (and that was largely translation of an existing manual suite to a node-based automatic runner.) It's pretty much always been "these are the things the devs/product manager/pm wants to test for these changes, please test those and approve".