What is good enough? What does it mean to be done with a task, iteration, or project? What does it mean to be fast and have acceptable quality? In the software development world we often struggle with these questions. As a quality assurance / testing professional, I can always find more to test. I have never seen a product released with zero defects. The major role of a QA / test engineer is to provide information to both the technical (development) and business (customer) teams. As we rapidly give feedback to developers, we help them avoid defects and adding unnecessary features to the software. When we give information to customers, it enables them to make critical decisions for their business. As QA / test engineers, we perform a balancing act between helping our teams receive timely and appropriate tasks and accomplishing iterations and projects as fast as possible, while ensuring acceptable quality. Read more. (http://tech.lds.org/index.php?option=com_content task=view id=360 Itemid=1)
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