I am having trouble understanding the role of QA in earlier phases of the SDLC.
The role of QA is obvious in the testing phase, but I can not see how QA should participate before that, especially in the planning, designing, or implementation phases.
asked May 4, 2017 at 8:09
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You might find this answer somewhat helpful to give you some ideas: sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/12641/…– FDMCommented May 4, 2017 at 9:27
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We are here not to google for it you. Do your own research and ask clarifying questions.– Peter M. - stands for MonicaCommented May 4, 2017 at 14:21
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Possible duplicate of Apart from testing and finding good bugs what other things the testers can do?– AndreiTCommented May 8, 2017 at 7:18
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There is definitely a role for QA and, in my experience, makes quality more effective as a while when QA is involved the planning, designing and implementation phases.
Typically, in the design, planning and implementation phases, QA can/should be:
- Creating a comprehensive test strategy for the feature/enhancement (identifying user scenarios, edge cases, data requirements, etc)
- Outlining feature acceptance criteria and critical path scenarios with Product Management and Engineering
- Pushing quality process and best practices with PM and Engineering
- Collaborating with other stakeholders (Support and Consulting teams) to ensure that as many test scenarios are included in the strategy as possible
- Learning the implementations (technical implementations) engineering will put in place to ensure system testing is done where needed
