Quality Assurance Engineer: history and fun facts
Everything a curious kid might want to know about this job.
Did you know?
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Computer mistakes are called bugs. Testers sometimes find them by hunting for them carefully, just like looking for tiny bugs in a garden!
Through history
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Long ago
Early computers were so big they filled whole rooms. People checked them by hand, step by step, to see if they worked right.
Tools of the trade
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Test checklist
A list of steps to try again and again. It helps testers check that an app still works every time it changes.
A day in the job
- 9:00 AMThe tester opens the new version of an app and starts clicking, typing, and trying things to see what happens.
Quiz time
A QA Engineer only tests games, not banking apps or videos.
QA Engineers try to break software on purpose to find problems.
A bug is a mistake in computer code.