= Session=
* Track: Standardization Decisions
* Topic: Standardizing QA best practices
=Description=
This session will be a short presentation of how QA processes are currently integrated into development workflows, and then, an open discussion.
1. What makes software good - and why QA support is important
-- Three practical concepts of a good software (understanding the problem, simple and intuitive design, seeing users' perspective)
-- Context-specific testing approach
2. **Hands-on exploratory testing exercise** (Special:RecentChanges page )
-- Evaluate what should be tested
-- Outline how the features may be tested
3. Current practices
-- what are QA processes?
--- a team workflow support
--- a daily track of QA work
- how QA processes are integrated in development cycle (and why)
-- Planning/Design
-- Implementation
-- Deployment
-- Maintenance
=Questions to answer and discuss=
**Question:** How can we ensure QA processes are consistently and effectively integrated into development workflows?
**Question:** What are our current best practices?
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=Pre-reading for all Participants=
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=Notes document(s)=
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMTC19-T234653
=Notes and Facilitation guidance=
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019/NotesandFacilitation
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=Session Leader(s)=
* Elena Tonkovidova (@Etonkovidova)
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=Session Style / Format=
* Presentation/demo of QA practices and hands-on exercise
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