Quality assurance initiatives and test automation terminology

Quality assurance can often seem like a mystical religion that engineering pays lip service to, in an effort to appease the business and add a quality approved seal to a product. Traditional implementations of manual quality assurance initiatives often feel very abstract and repetitive. Quality assurance is simply the practice of verifying functional requirements, and identifying defects, in an effort to create and preserve market credibility. In the end poorly created software products have no credibility, and zero hopes of competing against similar products that are functional. Adopting, and implementing innovative automated quality assurance solutions, and coupling those with automated testing apparatuses, can provide significant business value. These solutions increase businesses credibility, and promote customer reliance on the software products delivered.

Automated testing further assists the business by removing the human...