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Cache Conundrum: A Daily Dialogue in the World of Code and QA

Jagroop Singh on January 20, 2024

I recently wrote 📝 a post on LinkedIn where I discussed the everyday conversation that I have in my office 💼 with the QA team,some engineers, and ...
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@jagroop2001 !!
you are just me.......
I have to have the above mentioned conversation with my QA team and after that it's automatically solved.

I don't know why they have to ask even they know it's cache issue. They didn't even think that previously it was cache issue then now it may be cache issue.
But still everyday we have to convey them that " IT'S CACHE ISSUE"

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Jagroop Singh

Start putting this mandatory line in your JIRA ticket or any other Project management tool you use :
"CLEAR CACHE BEFORE TESTING"

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Red Ochsenbein (he/him)

I had the following conversion once (not word for word).

QA: it does not work
Me: did you clear the caches?
QA: oh. No. Now it works, can we please remove caches for testing environments.
Me: Eh, maybe
QA: We need it
Me: Well then, okay

Days later...

QA: The system is too slow...

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Jagroop Singh

Soo true !!
But they have no other choice . They have to remove cache in order to test new feature.

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@jagroop2001 !!
I completely understand what you write in the post.
Sometimes I feel, my co workers are too dumb or they just behave like that.

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Jagroop Singh

Everyone is smart!!
Some people specialise in appearing dumb while covertly acting brilliant.