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QA

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˌkjuː ˈeɪ/abbreviationCore term

In software engineering, QA means: Short for quality assurance: the work of checking that software meets its requirements and works well. It also names the people or team who do this work.

In Turkish: kalite güvencesi, test ekibi, kalite kontrol

How it is used

Used for the process, the team and the stage: 'send it to QA', 'QA found two bugs', 'It's in QA'. QA engineers do manual and automated testing, and a 'QA environment' is a server set aside for testing.

Example sentences

  1. The ticket is done on our side and waiting for QA.

  2. QA reported that the discount code still works after it expires.

Common collocations

  • send to QA
  • QA engineer
  • QA environment
  • pass QA
  • QA team
  • test caseOne specific situation you check, with set inputs, steps and an expected result, for example 'logging in with a wrong password shows an error'.
  • regressionA bug where something that used to work stops working after a change, such as a new feature breaking an old one.
  • bugA mistake in a program that makes it behave in a way nobody intended, such as showing wrong results, freezing or closing suddenly.
  • stagingAn environment set up to be as close as possible to production, where a team checks a release one last time before real users get it.
  • end-to-end testA test that runs a complete user journey through the real system, for example opening the site, logging in and placing an order, to check that everything works together.

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