Pairing with Developers a Testers viewpoint
The common thought about a Tester and Developer is that they'll have arguments and see each other as adversaries but that’s a classic myth. While working as a tester there will be times you talk to the developers. Here are some experiences from interactions with developers The Demystifier: The project was set-up such that a single QA was working at off-shore and development team was on shore. The primary task of the QA was to do automation. The project was a simple website with typical navigations using bread-crumbs, search pages etc. The automation was done considering these scenarios and did not have to deal with anything complex. After few weeks the team decided to implement authentication. The authentication was simple username/password but along with it they introduced “captcha” for better security. Since the current automation framework was designed considering no authentication it had to be modified to incorporate the new flow. The challenge was to how to get ...