We need to talk about testing

Re:We need to talk about testing by nicoburns on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @08:18AM (#27982908)

IMO a key thing for human QA testing is to test unhappy paths and error handling. What happens if the user does something unexpected. The happy path is generally well tested by developers during development, but testing the unhappy paths is much more difficult and time consuming, and that's where the QAs come in.

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Re:We need to talk about testing by dkersten on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:04AM (#27983874)

Sure, agreed. That’s why I said “Test common mistakes due to user error. Stuff like that that.” My main point is that it’s unrealistic to expect human QA to find bugs, but what humans shine at that computers don’t is workflow issues, visual issues and “does it feel slow/bad/whatever”. I suppose leaning more heavily on the mistakes side of the workflow makes sense though, yes.

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