Best QA Advice
Some good advice that I have gotten over the years
On Twitter, someone asked, "What's the best testing advice you've ever heard?" I thought it was an interesting question, so I thought I share my "Top 5 QA Advice" that I have gotten over the years.
Top 5 QA Advice
Here are some of the best advice I have learned over the years.
"Never assume the assumption is true." - Kind of weird advice. But it was given to me when I was assuming too much when reading the testing steps of a ticket. My manager at the time said this to me so that I would try to think outside of the box and challenge the assumption that was given on the ticket. (For example, what if the user forgot the email address that they used in a "Forgotten Password" test.)
Pay attention to the details - Always make sure to check the little things when testing tickets. Because when customers are looking at the final work, they will notice the small details - especially if it doesn't seem quite right.
Learn SQL really well - Given to me by a manager a long time ago. He really stressed to make sure that I knew all the tricks of making a SQL Select statement. This not only helped me debug issues but also build some interesting QA Dashboards.
Document Everything - The manager would go on to say, "You never know when you may get hit by a bus." He was being funny. But his point was to make sure that test documents were updated and more importantly useful. This was a key thing. If I wasn't writing things down.
Always end an automation run with a validation statement. - Someone on the automation team gave me this advice when code auditing my automation. "What good is your test if you don't finish it with some validation statement." This is pretty good advice that I give to other people.