i came, i tested, i asked.


As a software tester / QA (Quality Advocate) i no longer use the word "no." 

i always start every report with "i found this [issue, with details of its STR(steps to replicate), risk, and impact]" -- and then follow up with "how do we look at it? what do we do with it?" almost instantly, everyone in the meeting will take a pause and conveniently reach to a common conclusion. 

mature QA is no longer about happy path vs. negative testing. It is about how our product will fare out there in the wild. 


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