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0 pointskoonsolo1mo ago0 comments

Have you seen the automated tests that QA members deliver? My experience is that they are horrible, and it's not so hard to beat that low quality bar with an LLM.

I have a theory: if they were good at writing automated tests, they would have been developers instead of QA engineers.

Not saying that there aren't any high quality QA engineers, I worked with some. But LLM's raised the bar in a way that most QA engineers can't reach.

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Mashimo1mo ago· 1 in thread

Huh, never thought about QA writing unit tests.

In my limited experience they write test cases, test each story, do regression test, verify bugs from customers. All by hand.

At my current job I don't want to miss them.

koonsoloOP1mo ago

They test everything manually and don't have any automated end-to-end tests? That basically proves my point ;).

simonw1mo ago

Yeah, I don't think the role of QA is to write automated tests - developers should be doing most of that work.

The best QA people I've worked with didn't write much code at all. You'd give them a new system and they'd find all of the bugs, testing obscure edge-cases that you'd never thought of.

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