Talking Code

How To Do Quality Assurance Testing

Episode Summary

Fred Stevens-Smith of Rainforest explains the need for quality assurance testing and how to actually do it in the resource constrained environment of a startup.

Episode Notes

Fred Stevens-Smith of Rainforest explains the need for quality assurance testing and how to actually do it in the resource constrained environment of a startup.

Here's what to listen for:

• 4:06 What is quality assurance testing?
• 5:19 What are the main differences between an automated test and a QA test?
• 7:11 For those of us that have automated tests, do I still need QA tests run by hand?
• 11:41 What is the difference between an integration test and a unit test?
• 14:48 What is the Document Object Model (DOM)?
• 17:49 Who should be writing QA tests?
• 21:10 How do I shift my perspective from building things to breaking them?
• 23:33 Why is it problematic to leave QA for the last minute?
• 27:14 How thorough do our tests need to be?
• 30:23 What do you to minimize the cost of the time it takes to test?
• 39:30 How do you balance your team owning QA without getting distracted by building a QA team?