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The Ten Commandments of Quality Assurance

  1. Be familiar with the Scientific Method and use that familiarity to excel in your duties.
  2. Understand the difference between playing a game and testing a game. Spend most of your time doing the latter.
  3. Be flexible.
  4. Find and report bugs as early as possible.
  5. Think like a hacker. Be creative in finding problems with the game.
  6. Put in as much effort with your regression testing as you do with your initial testing.
  7. Remember that QA Testers are not designers. Having a QA Tester design effectively negates that person’s objectivity.
  8. Don't write sloppy bugs. Spell and grammar check everything.
  9. Test everything you can reasonably test.
  10. Work under the assumption that most (if not all) bugs can be consistently reproduced.

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