Gimme Gimme Gimme more Assertions
I can’t forget the words my colleague gave me when I was just taking my first baby steps as a QA, and it was a great QA-related piece of advice: “Never assume anything.” I can assure you that the more time progresses, the more this makes sense.
Today’s IT systems we work with are more complicated than ever before, and we need to be completely sure of the outcome of any part of the system that we are either testing, exploring, or developing. If we are not sure about the expected behavior, there is always a specification or some other type of documentation that is supposed to clarify the enigma. If there is no specification and the documentation is lacking, we can always check with the project manager, product owner, developer, or anyone who is familiar with the system.