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Every successful interaction that occurs between you and your favorite app is the result of the combined efforts of a quality assurance (QA) team. The expectations of the modern mobile app user is — that is, almost all of us, nowadays — is nothing short of perfection, and it’s the primary goal of a QA team to ensure an error-free product on each deployment.
Are we doomed to an ever-increasing need for more staff members and bigger and bigger QA teams?
Up until comparatively recently — the “wow-I-guess-that-really-was-a-long-time-ago-now 1980s” — software QA teams relied heavily on manually testing their devices to ensure products pushed out to market performed properly.
This can be difficult to predict, and — as we’ve discussed — a complex app means complex testing scenarios and patterns.
Editorial note: This is a summary of an article first published by The New Stack. The full piece is on their site.