Almost a year ago I started working as QA Lead for the Wikimedia Foundation . Among other things, I had a mandate to create an automated browser testing practice at WMF. From the start I wanted this project to be a world class, completely open, reference implementation of such a project, using the best and most modern tools and practices I could find. I wanted this to be a project that anyone could read, anyone could run, and to which anyone could contribute. I wanted this to be an industry standard implementation of a well-designed, well-implemented, working browser test automation project. Around 2006 my career had veered off into a test automation approach that, while valid and useful in certain circumstances, would be inappropriate for the WMF project. And in the years since 2006, the tools and practices that were immature at the time had grown into mature, stable, powerful projects of their own. I set out to educate myself about the details of ...
QA is not evil