Life of a Software Tester
Expected vs Actual Result

Life of a Software Tester

I am QA. I get paid to be sarcastic. I work to get more examples to be more sarcastic.

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One of the thingies is spinning. Dev tells me it met the specification!!

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They told me it's an edge case, none of our users will be able to do that in Production.

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It is space saving, team work design they convince me.

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My bugs got closed without justification.

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They hate me for logging bugs and doing my job.

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Smoke Testing is smoking.

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Try catching a sporadic bug.

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Test data set up - Jengaaaa

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Testing the same thing in Sandbox, Dev, QA, UAT and PROD

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And then there is Regression testing. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting the same result.

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This is what they think I like to do.

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Product Manager's reaction when I recommend stopping the release and Developers support me.

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I finally get my build to test. It is 5:00 pm Friday, last day of the sprint.

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With every test, I see bugs crawling towards me.

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I need access to a working environment and data. But this is what I have to do till production night.

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"We don't want to reinvent the wheel, just use what we have. " This is my process.

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Product Training for QA


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Retrospective time - not the best time to be honest.


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All hail Morpheus!!

Sabarinath Subramaniam

Director at Sivasakthi Science Foundation | Scientific Director, Bharat Genome Database & GenAi Research Labs | Consultant in Genomics, Bioinformatics, and Financial Sustainability

2 年

This is brilliant!!

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