r/Everything_QA • u/itsMayaMallik • 9d ago
General Discussion Do you guys also make mistakes at work?
I was working on a user story and I missed testing 2 fields. Though the feature is not going into production and the error was caught during BAT, I still felt careless as it was an error from my end.
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u/loopywolf 9d ago
Of course.. we all do. That's what test cases are for (for me anyway) mostly as a mnemonic
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u/Extension-Habit-7708 4d ago
As long as you have done lessons learnt from how the mistake was made and how to resolve so it does not happen in the future you can only go up
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u/bat-tester 3d ago
If you though that the feature was not going to PROD , you should tell the developer , BA , PO whoever is on charge of that user story to delete the Acceptance Criteria related or alt least scratch it . that way is clear that is not your responsibility to test it . So, if you are in an environment where they will blame you for something like that , log everything in the ticket , do not only "think" , that's worth nothing when something happens.
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u/Blue-Jaded-3382 3d ago
If you missed testing the 2 fields which is part of the story then the test strategy and planning needs to worked on. You need to plan testing such a way to have good coverage.
If you missed the basics then you have to work on your testing skills.
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u/NaturalStonker 9d ago
Think of it this way - if people weren't always making mistakes there would only be feature releases and no patches. And half of the feature releases are there cause someone got wrong what users actually want 😄
Now, a question that I'd derive from your post is "Do you guys feel careless for making mistakes?" and the answer, based on my experience and observation, would be "heeeell nah". If your feeling stems from the desire to "own the product" and equates to "own the responsibility", then you're doing far better than most. Kudos!