Most of us testers are called these days as QA engineers, which sounds pretty confusing to me. Testing and Quality Assurance are two different process areas, which may not even overlap sometimes. However, due to this configuration, most testing activities may not be performed as good as they could. Let's think whether we understand QA right and whether we really have to be testers in order to assure quality.

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Yegor Bugayenko
QAFest, Kyiv, Ukraine
20 September 2019
QA vs. Testing

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@yegor256 I have a question…

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Are you
“QA engineers”?Quality Assurance

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Part I:
Best tools and instruments
for QA experts

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Affinity
diagram

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Process
Decision
Program
Chart

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Interrelationship
Digraph

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Prioritization
Matrix

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Matrix
Diagram

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Six Sigma

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Confused?

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Part II:
Best tools and instruments
for software testers

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QA Testing≠
My point is:

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PM
Tester
Analyst
Programmer
Reviewer
DevOps
QualityScope TimeCost

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Quality Assurance is the process of
auditing the quality requirements
and the results from quality control
measurements to ensure that
appropriate quality standards and
operational definitions are used.
QA
Quality Control is the process of
monitoring and recording results of
executing the quality activities to
assess performance and recommend
necessary changes.
QC
PMBOK v.5

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Requirements
Requirements
Matrix
Validation
Speed
of approval
Coding
LoC or HoC
Test coverage
Static
analysis
3rd party
tools
Code reviews
Duration
Rejection
rate
Coverage
DevOps
Frequency
Speed
Availability
Testing
Bugs/release
Bugs/day
Rates
Quality Customers are happy=

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PM
QualityCostScope Time People Risks
Coding
DeployingRequirements
Testing
Code reviews
Documentation
Customers UX/UI
Architecture
Corrective Action
Metrics
Change Request
ISO 9001

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QA
Testing
:management
:engineering

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Why…
they call us QA instead of testers?

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Cynthia Cohen: “The lack of
status and support makes the
tester’s job more difficult and
time consuming, as the struggle
for recognition becomes part of
the job itself”
Managing Conflict in Software Testing, Communications of the
ACM, Volume 47, Issue 1, 2004

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How to become a better tester?
code
review
report
measure

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