For most of this semester I have been in the QA liaison for my team, for us this means that I prepare the test plan and feedback forms for Champlain's QA sessions. I also oversee the creation and execution of the smoke test and the team's QA sessions. The experience has been very helpful and hectic.
I have learned a lot from being the QA liaison this semester. One of the things that Champlain College doesn't really teach is the value of QA. Admittedly its a hard concept to fit into a classroom but it has informed and improved my priorities when programming as well as given me a much more useful set of tools to process feedback.
The semester is winding down and while that does not mean that the programming has gotten any less urgent it does mean that the focus has shifted to bugs and polish rather than new features or UI or such. The shift to bug fixing and polish lets me as the QA liaison test for specific issues and worry far less about having a stable build to take to QA.
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