Is QA role dead? I've seen that popping in socials. Yet another GenAI victim? This conversation has been going in circles for years, long before AI became everyone's favourite scapegoat. I think that the real question isn't whether AI will replace testers. It's whether we've ever understood what good testing looks like. And how's that read more inside on my thought about QA role!
I encourage developers to talk about how to test a feature before developers start the implementation. Thinking together on use cases is something that:
A. Helps developers avoid obvious mistakes
B. Helps QA to be involved in pre-development phase and avoid some obvious questions while starting the testing
I worked as QA (along with other roles in software engineering).
QA have a special mentality - they are those little kids investigating a product by trying to break it :-D
This is very creative and irrational work with out of the box thinking that only human can do.
But I see manual QA as atavism now. QA have tons of tools to help with automation.
Generative AI can generate sources for functional tests easily now leaving QA with the most interesting task - break this sh*t and see how it works :-D
I encourage developers to talk about how to test a feature before developers start the implementation. Thinking together on use cases is something that:
A. Helps developers avoid obvious mistakes
B. Helps QA to be involved in pre-development phase and avoid some obvious questions while starting the testing
C. It creates more robust scenarios
I worked as QA (along with other roles in software engineering).
QA have a special mentality - they are those little kids investigating a product by trying to break it :-D
This is very creative and irrational work with out of the box thinking that only human can do.
But I see manual QA as atavism now. QA have tons of tools to help with automation.
Generative AI can generate sources for functional tests easily now leaving QA with the most interesting task - break this sh*t and see how it works :-D
So QA role will always be actual.