MenisMas' Blog

I've read several times in the last few months that there are companies removing Test or QA Teams in the organization. Something that was like a "seriously? It can't be as testing ensure the quality and quality is one of the most important thing if not the most in product development", but after a few months tuning the ALM I was involved I've started to understand what the comment "that company has removed QA" means. I have to say I didn't read more than comments about remove QA, I never red the reasons, probably because I didn't want to know as I thought on that as something unthinkable.

If we imagine the usual situation where there are teams developing the software and teams testing the software, some years ago those teams where located in different places even in the same office, but now companies are moving them together, QA team member next one or two or even three developers, keeping the communications faster and clearer which is one of the key of the QA - Development relationship.

6 months ago we started building our QA Team with our first member, sitting down next to Developers and understanding how company runs Development Lifecycle, and at some point our QA player started to write UI, Integration and Instrumentation tests, so he became to be part of Development Team but not developing code or fixing bugs, everything related to testing the code to be written or already written.

After few months running this experience we can say it has been great for both parties, developers and testers feel they are the same team and they are developing the same product, giving to that product the right quality. Now, we can say or understand QA Team Members are becoming part of the Development Team, removing the words QA Team, but behind the scenes QA is still present.