If you were given a recipe for a cake to follow, and it just gave you a list of ingredients, no amounts or what to put in when, could you successfully make the cake? If you have experience baking you might be able to wing it and end up with something similar, but it wouldn't be the same as what the recipe described. So, with a well written recipe for a cake with amounts, instructions, and even sometimes photos (at …
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If you were putting together a bookshelf, and all you had were photos with no labels or further instructions, could you put the shelf together correctly? For most of us, probably not. My Ikea bookshelves and the nightmare it was to put those together WITH instructions can attest to that. Those instructions are like a test case - they walk you through how to do something step by step. With a bookshelf it would tell you what the pieces are …
When people ask what I do, and I respond with, "I'm a QA tester", or "I'm a QA Engineer" they have no idea what that means, or they think I do call monitoring. If I try to elaborate and tell them I test software, or even give examples, they get glassy eyed, nod, mumble something about that being nice, and change the subject. So, what is a QA Engineer? What do they do? It's often said that QA Engineers are …