Personally I feel QA -> Quality Analyst -> means a person whose job role is is to analyze the flow of the project and ensure quality of the project deliverable. The deliverable could be Production Code, Unit/Integration Test Code, Functional Test Code, Any documentation like Release Notes etc... There are also other deliverables like Stories written for every iteration, and those stories should be reviewed by the QA to ensure there is no functional Gap's (sometimes BAs might miss to add an acceptance criteria). Now to emphasize Quality in all these places, the QA can chose to use any appropriate method to achieve the same. When he tests the application to ensure the production code is of good quality, he is referred to as a tester but Philosophically the job doesn't end only with that.
- Karthik
From: Savita Munde <savitamunde@gmail.com>
To: agile-testing@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, 6 January 2012 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [agile-testing] Re: What is the difference between QA and Test?
Hello,
I agree that the term of QA remains to create Dilbert.
QA – who make sure that the test group follows the process. They are also responsible for creating processes to improve the quality of test deliverable. I am not sure what else they do it because I only worked with Developer, SMEs, Testers, Project manager and Customer.
Tester – They help stakeholders to provide the quality related information. I feel Test group is the back bone of any software project.
These days Job advertisement flashes on newspaper saying that to hire QA Tester. Basically QA Tester does Software testing and also creates Test processes. I wonder how come companies cannot distinguish between these two. I think it might be the old definition of testing which used to say that testers test the product to ensures the quality of the product which leads industries to call tester's as 'QA tester'.
Is QA cost to the project? If so then as Agile says to reduce the waste in terms of cost then I feel QA should not be the part of any agile project :-)
Savita
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Matthew <matt.heusser@gmail.com> wrote:
PS: Earlier I wrote:Should be military, government, or /regulated/ (EG FDA, etc.)
--- In agile-testing@yahoogroups.com, "Matthew" <matt.heusser@...> wrote:
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> Hello Michael.
>
> My experience with "QA"s who don't test is that they are typically involved
>in military or government projects, and they view their job as making
>sure the /process/ was /followed/.
>
--heusser
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Savita
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