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Jesse Phillips • Edited

My role is software testing.

On a good day I view a bug as a curiosity. It indicates a new challenge, how do I isolate it to effectively reproduce, how do I find similar issues?

Other days it is an indicator of failure. When you work at eliminating the amount of testing you do for a given release you're bound to choose incorrectly. My preference is to understand why I eliminated a class of testing which would have caught the issue. My concern is that testing that behavior is expected every release with documentation on pass/fail.

Note automation is used and helpful, but if ever test needs to run every release, and releases don't stop just because you're testing, it leaves no time to reduce time.