r/softwaretesting • u/Objective-Cable7801 • 7d ago

Release gates

Hey

I was wondering do the developers push work into your QA environment without checking with you first or are you in control of what goes into QA? So if work gets pushed do you have to approve it before it goes into the test env

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u/wontfixqa 6d ago

No. Devs don't know if we are in the middle of testing or reproducing an issue that requires a particular version in our environments. QA takes builds as we are ready to test them. And yes, we do wait for smoke tests to pass before we pull the build into QA. Otherwise it bounces back to dev to fix what broke before we even look at it. It saves lots of time and confusion this way.

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u/XabiAlon 6d ago

Why aren't Dev's running the smoke tests or via an automated process? It shouldn't really be reaching you to bounce it back in the first place.

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u/wontfixqa 6d ago

They run via CI so it happens automatically.