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Quality assurance

Is any test better than no test?

by Gema on June 30, 2012

I have had this conversation several times already since I started testing Ubuntu, excellent engineers, some of them seem to think that having some sort of automated tests is better than not having any. As a QA engineer, I wholeheartedly disagree. Here are my reasons. When you have no tests, you know you don't know anything about [...]

Crazy month

by Gema on November 24, 2011

This last month I have been travelling a lot for work. I went to UDS in Orlando at the end of October, then back home to the UK, then a week later went to Lexington in Boston to do a Sprint (one week of everybody in the same room, working together) with the QA Team. [...]

What is testing?

by Gema on August 30, 2011

I would like to give a brief introduction to testing as I see it in the first post. I know that when I say to people I do software testing, the first thing that comes to their mind is one of these two: How boring, pressing buttons all day. How cool, being able to test [...]