Testing Advice To Your Younger Self; An Open Question To Reddit
Break down traditional QA silos and empower developers to own quality checks.
Reddit is great! There’s an endless stream of ideas and information that flows through the platform on a daily basis.
I asked this question to the r/softwaretesting subreddit, to see what answers they would give when answering the question: “What’s ONE piece of testing advice for your younger self. Go!”.
P.S. — Reddit is known for its memes so naturally, I included one.
A quick summary of the numbers:
- Responses gathered over 6 days.
- 23 unique responses.
- 38 comments in total.
- 67% upvoted.
- 9 upvotes in total.
Here’s 3 of the most upvoted by other users
I often think that sometimes the first few comments sometimes lead to being the most upvoted. Here’s 3 which I think are also of value that missed the initial influx of readers.
Concluding
I’ll be the first to admit that there’s no guarantee that this advice will resonate with 100% of readers. Some will disagree and some will agree, and that’s the beauty of our ability to think differently. If something makes sense to you, take it, apply it, and tweak it, and if there’s one takeaway from this, it’s the following:
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