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Stop Creating a Repo For Your QA Automated Tests

Dennis Whalen on February 26, 2020

QA teams can be responsible for a variety of automated test types, including UI, API, performance, and security tests. Many times, I see these auto...
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Mark Turner

I don’t agree that a single repo will solve these problems. I would be surprised if any devs waited for your changes just because you have a single repo?

All of these problems could be dealt with by having better communication amongst your team e.g. a little conversation explaining you need an aria identifier on an new frontend element ( you are doing accessibility testing? 😄)

A discussion about how you are going to approach a feature from a dev and qa perspective should be had before a story, so each person is aware of what is required.

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Michael D. Callaghan

Yes yes, a thousand times yes! I’ll be forwarding this to my leadership today.