Talking Code

Fred Stevens-Smith of Rainforest explains the need for quality assurance testing and how to actually do it in the resource constrained environment of a startup. Here's what to listen for: 4:06 What is quality assurance testing? 5:19 What are the main differences between an automated test and a QA test? 7:11 For those of us that have automated tests, do I still need QA tests run by hand? 11:41 What is the difference between an integration test and a unit test? 14:48 What is the Document Object Model (DOM)? 17:49 Who should be writing QA tests? 21:10 How do I shift my perspective from building things to breaking them? 23:33 Why is it problematic to leave QA for the last minute? 27:14 How thorough do our tests need to be? 30:23 What do you to minimize the cost of the time it takes to test? 39:30 How do you balance your team owning QA without getting distracted by building a QA team?