Back in 2016, my colleagues called me “minottobot” - out of both affection and frustration. Every pull request came back with meticulous comments: syntax, style, naming, indentation. I was a human linter. Relentless. Insufferable. Years later, I moved deeper into quality engineering. The...
There’s a question that echoes through every legacy codebase, every late-night deploy, every “it works on my machine” moment: did you actually try it? Not in a dismissive way - in the most honest, pragmatic sense. Did someone, with their own hands, open a browser and verify that the thing works...
A few years ago, during a particularly tense retrospective, someone said: “Wasn’t this bug supposed to be caught by QA?” The room went quiet. It wasn’t an open accusation. But in that sentence there was a clear boundary: quality had an owner. And it wasn’t “the team”. In that...