Five steps to fostering better software tester and QA results
By John Scarpino
Software quality assurance analysts and software quality testers both play an integral role in the software testing process. Software quality analysts must concentrate on delivering consistent quality across the software development life cycle (SDLC) of the company, while managing procedures, process, standards and policies; whereas a software quality tester is responsible for ensuring the overall quality of the software products.
In a perfect world, the requirements would always be clearly defined prior to any software quality testing or software quality assurance-related activity. But in reality software quality assurance analysts and software quality testers are often given minimal direction by project management, software developers and business analysts. They are also allotted little time in which to complete a software project. The reason for this has partly to do with the organizational structure of many software technology companies.
