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How To Do Quality Assurance Testing
Talking Code
English - May 19, 2015 07:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsTechnology Education How To technology code programming software web designers founders startups developers non-technical Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Fred Stevens-Smith of Rainforest explains the need for quality assurance testing and how to actually do it in the resource constrained environment of a startup.
Here's what to listen for:
4:06 What is quality assurance testing?
5:19 What are the main differences between an automated test and a QA test?
7:11 For those of us that have automated tests, do I still need QA tests run by hand?
11:41 What is the difference between an integration test and a unit test?
14:48 What is the Document Object Model (DOM)?
17:49 Who should be writing QA tests?
21:10 How do I shift my perspective from building things to breaking them?
23:33 Why is it problematic to leave QA for the last minute?
27:14 How thorough do our tests need to be?
30:23 What do you to minimize the cost of the time it takes to test?
39:30 How do you balance your team owning QA without getting distracted by building a QA team?