tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901059998336700856.post7496068245543940058..comments2023-04-03T01:00:30.652-04:00Comments on Trance Cyberian Tester: I am a Tester...Why are you calling me QA?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901059998336700856.post-58683088504522255462010-10-14T22:29:14.296-04:002010-10-14T22:29:14.296-04:00I think Quality Control and Quality Assurance are ...I think Quality Control and Quality Assurance are different things and can only be linked if <br />"The tester's company does not employ any formal process improvement at all, so the Quality Control activities literally are the only source of process improvement by pointing out defects in what is produced."<br />see 'QA or QC, What do you do?' blog by John McConda<br />http:Lenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06447684629307045923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901059998336700856.post-959858834460765392010-10-14T09:32:14.252-04:002010-10-14T09:32:14.252-04:00I would say that Testing is a part of Quality Cont...I would say that Testing is a part of Quality Control, which is directy linked to Quality Assurance (it is impossible to ensure quality without measuring it in Testing).<br /><br />I agree that this error could lead to confusion, since a QA Engineer and a Tester will do different stuff.<br /><br />I'm a Testing Engineer but I'm trying to move gradually into Quality Assurance :-)Qawallhttp://twitter.com/#!/Qawallnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901059998336700856.post-86636009632741258902010-10-04T06:56:51.241-04:002010-10-04T06:56:51.241-04:00Thank you, Simon! Your post is very insightful.
&#...Thank you, Simon! Your post is very insightful.<br />'Quality is not a judgment that you as a tester can make about a product! Some fault-prone products may need to go out during a certain quarter to keep the cash-flow ticking over...'<br />This is so right on the money.<br />What rubs me the wrong way is the some testers don't think it's a big deal that we are labeled as QA.Lenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06447684629307045923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4901059998336700856.post-18942338202167887242010-10-04T04:13:31.731-04:002010-10-04T04:13:31.731-04:00Yes! I'm with you completely.
It's an int...Yes! I'm with you completely.<br /><br />It's an interesting phenomenom how Q-words and testing get mixed up - and used without necessarily thinking about it. The result is that after a time no one is really thinking about what they are saying - and there leads to confusion.<br /><br />I think it's part of our job as testers to highlight confusion (or potential confusion) when we see Simon Morleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10629592766073538811noreply@blogger.com