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Date Published
Author
Marcus Merrell
Word count
581
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The current alignment between CIOs, CTOs, devs, and QA teams is imperfect but has progressed significantly from previous years. Today's CIOs understand the importance of quality, speed, and software testing in providing flawless customer experiences across platforms. However, there are still gaps in understanding between what CIOs know and what testers want them to know. Achieving 100% test automation coverage is not possible due to code complexity and unimportance, and instead, a risk-based approach should be used. Test automation complements human testers by freeing them to focus on user experience and ensuring seamless interactions. The role of a tester goes beyond finding bugs to modeling and advocating for a great user experience. A comprehensive testing strategy that spans multiple types of tests is necessary, with Selenium being just one tool among many. Ultimately, quality is an everyone's responsibility, requiring testers to understand customer needs and business drivers to deliver high-quality software experiences.