"If your development process still relies heavily on manual QA and your engineers are now using AI-assisted coding tools, you've created a new bottleneck".
My response? Let it!
I am all in favor of outsourcing the "boring stuff" to automated tests or AI. Who really wants to check for the umpteenth time that the same page in the web app has the correct working functionality on Chrome, Firefox, MS Edge, Mac Safari, and all the various screen sizes. BORING!
Now, it takes a real software tester to make sure the brand-new untested features fresh off the developer's local machine meets not just the spec, wireframes, requirements, and design, but also to make sure it matches those undocumented expectations that were discussed but may have not been carefully documented. Or that the user experiences matches how the designer really wanted the web app to operate. Or that the user experience doesn't change too much when you operate the web app in the wild.
That all is fun part of the job ... realizing during testing that the business requirement or the design were actually unclear, and that you as a tester found a unique edge case.
I am all in favor of outsourcing the "boring stuff" to automated tests or AI. Who really wants to check for the umpteenth time that the same page in the web app has the correct working functionality on Chrome, Firefox, MS Edge, Mac Safari, and all the various screen sizes. BORING!
Now, it takes a real software tester to make sure the brand-new untested features fresh off the developer's local machine meets not just the spec, wireframes, requirements, and design, but also to make sure it matches those undocumented expectations that were discussed but may have not been carefully documented. Or that the user experiences matches how the designer really wanted the web app to operate. Or that the user experience doesn't change too much when you operate the web app in the wild.
That all is fun part of the job ... realizing during testing that the business requirement or the design were actually unclear, and that you as a tester found a unique edge case.
Let AI do the mindless drudgery. Just as long as I can still focus on the fun stuff!
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