We've all had days when QA made things difficult. When we take a closer look
at what caused it we usually find that there was some miscommunication
between QA and the programmers. And this miscommunication was most likely
caused by the business having unrealistic expectations of the development
team or the business/programmers not understanding the best way to utilize
QA. So where does QA fit?
Sometimes programmers forget that for most companies QA is actually part of
the development team. But programmers should be aware that most QA persons
(me for one) think a bit differently about the application being developed
and tested.
Programmers want to have new code validated to substantiate their work.
Having a new program or modification pass QA gives a programmer a sense o... (more)