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Re:How Going Back to Coding After 10 Years Almost Crushed Me by bryanrasmussen on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:45AM (#26721570)
>Manual QA promotes bad habits

I could understand Manual QA does not scale, but why bad habits? What if the person doing Manual QA of an application also then writes tests afterwards based on what they have determined are the likely problems in the application - which is what I would do if I was going to write (ui) tests, test it by hand first.

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Re:How Going Back to Coding After 10 Years Almost Crushed Me by void_mint on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:10AM (#26721752)
> What if the person doing Manual QA of an application also then writes tests afterwards based on what they have determined are the likely problems in the application

I wouldn't really call this manual QA then. I'm describing the thousands of orgs whose QA processes are limited to "These people will run these five thousand test cases by hand for every release", and/or "These people will be handed a ticket and manually click all the buttons before marking it done"

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