It seems as though automated testing or scripting experience is becoming mandatory for more and more software testing jobs in Dublin, particularly permanent jobs/better paying jobs/better employer jobs. It seems as though elsewhere a division has developed between manual and automated testers, but in Ireland it seems to be a case of automated testing experience becoming a prerequisite for most QA/ software testing roles.
The implications of this are interesting as many (if not most) of the QA people we’ve seen have a manual testing background. This seems to have become a pretty high-value skill in Dublin at the moment.
So, as development on Jobyssey rolls along we’ve stared seeing more pieces of functionality completed and ready for testing. As a start up, our developer hands over the code and it’s up to us to check that everything is functioning properly. We found a real dearth of ideas about how to implement an extremely simple, basic QA procedure. Plenty of ideas as to why QA was important, why you should hire QA people, how you should track bugs and so on, but not much that spoke to the “QA on a shoestring” contingent (Yo).
Here’s the procedure we followed:
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