I was recently involved in a discussion about the role of QA, faux-agile, and development. How should they work together? What's the proper role of each?
This was my reply... it felt like a blog entry, so I turned it into one. :)
QA should be heavily investing in automated tests (both unit, package level, and integration) tests that are being moving into your continuous integration (CI) system. At least 1/2 to 3/4s of the QA team should be able to write tests in the framework of choice. (This is assumes you started with an interactive test team.)
Developers should also be adding automated tests... running all these tests in continuous integration puts a huge dent in the amount of QA time that needs to be done.
You never freeze your code during an iteration. I've heavily edited code (and had team members heavily edit code) the day it went to customers. Having a solid automated test suite, running cross platform, enables practices like "ruthless refactoring" and provides developers
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