The truth
People, by definition, have faults. Most of the time, people are unaware, to some extent, of them. Those dear people, alog with their said resident faults, go about their daily business. Manifesting code, conjuring methods, summaning instances and remotely communicating with web services. All these creations, once made flesh by their faulty masters, hold the fault pattern in them, emitting, sometimes weakly, sometimes beacon, fault energy. Quality assurance practitioners feed on fault energy. Unseen by others, it calls them. The QA practitioner unorthodox ear allow no beeswax to plug it, to avoid the siren call. His sneaky hands cannot be tethered to the mast. And so, by feasting and consuming the faulty manifestation, the QA practitioner transforms it, elevates it, into production ready code.
Just a bit
OK, that was not exactly true, and maybe, just a bit over the top. Yet, if you have the experience and the talent that motivated you to gain it, you should be able to pull some very impressive tricks. We all makes mistakes, and we all make repeatable mistakes. I’m not talking about the “turning a blind eye to your own best interest” kind (dating a person you know is not good for you, eating that extra fry, delaying a task until there is no way you can complete it in time). Repeatable mistakes are spelling a word wrong for the Nth time, trying to turn on the light when you know the power is out, and more important to this discussion – introducing the same bug – again. We, as the quality assurance people, should expose these bugs like hyperactive magicians during caffeine overdose. These low hanging fruits should not receive any mercy. They count, like all other bugs. And they also give you the opportunity to impress, without actually showing off.
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