On 30 May 2012 02:38, Chris Cormack <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30 May 2012 12:30, Chris Nighswonger <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Ian Walls <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> To me, the role of QA is to be highly conservative. The QA team needs to >>> look at a piece of incoming code, and not only judge it on how well it does >>> it's intended purpose, but how it affects all the other code and workflows >>> that surround it. The folks creating and signing off on code are often >>> looking to answer the question "does it work?". I approach the QA process >>> asking the question "what does it break?". >>> >>> Often times, the answer is "nothing", and we get a great new feature in >>> our codebase. But sometimes the patch changes a core function or variable >>> declaration in a way that isn't spotted, and only applicable on certain use >>> cases. Or a new dependency is added that conflicts with something >>> existing. Or a security hole is introduced under some conditions. A person >>> asking "does this work?" isn't necessarily going to spot these things in >>> their testing; our code is very complex. I'm sure we can all recall cases >>> where piece of code was committed to do one thing, and then required a >>> followup because it broke something else under specific circumstances. >>> >>> I strongly believe that having a 'neutral party' to do the QA work is >>> essential to keeping our codebase strong and healthy. We need the fresh set >>> of eyes, the different perspective, the alternate use case. We need someone >>> asking "what does it break?", and I don't think the folks who've been asking >>> the question "does it work?" are the best suited to that task. >> >> >> +1 >> > +1 from me also
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