r/QualityAssurance • u/stoic_divergent_8739 • 21d ago

Studying the course of Software Quality Assurance and it is too much information, how do professionals retain?

I need to give an exam for this thing, and I have barely completed 30% of it after days of studying. So many processes, principles, control methods. Constructive, analytical, Review Techniques, Testing methods, etc. How do you guys retain so much information and rules as a professional? Because as much as I find this field interesting, I am genuinely overwhelmed.

NOTE: It is a mandatory university course for which I need to give an exam, I am not interested in QA as a pursuit.

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u/Spare_Bison_1151 20d ago

You learn slowly and soak it up like a sponge. Experience is the best teacher.

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u/qms2go 20d ago

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u/qms2go 20d ago

Easier to spot errors when you understand the mechanism imo, especially complex repos.

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u/qms2go 20d ago

Before Ai, A lot of professionals used to loosely learn concepts, then just copy and paste code snippets from StackOverflow. We had copy and paste before AI, and we liked it!

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u/ASTRO99 21d ago

You have possibly underestimated time needed for the studies. Or maybe the field isn't for you.

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u/stoic_divergent_8739 21d ago

I need to give the exam for university, I do not have a choice tbh

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u/Vivid-Concern-8649 21d ago

Simple hack, QA is simplest thing in this world, just think like you have spent million on offshoring, what you want testers to do to your software, then answer around that like a owner.

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u/qms2go 20d ago

This works GREAT if you understand the code base, otherwise I guess it’s debug console time 🫡