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Should we allow questions about software quality assurance?
I would like to ask a question about the pros/cons of using a library or more generally a way of assertion of complex data models.
This is more related to testing than it is to actual coding, but it is certainly tied to writing code.
I am wondering if we should allow such questions in our community.
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My personal opinion (I am not speaking for Codidact) is that we named the community "Software Development", not "Programming". Testing, both unit testing done by the developer and functional/performance/integration testing done (usually) by testers, is part of the software-development process writ large. I hope that questions about test frameworks, testing strategies, and testing processes would be welcome. (I would hope the same for at least code-adjacent documentation, like Doxygen, too.)
Further, here's the short description at the top of the Q&A category that was set up when we launched this community:
General Q&A about programming, scripting, software design & architecture, process, tools, testing, and more.
If this description no longer matches the desires of the community then of course we can adjust it, but it's a sign that at least in our early discussions folks thought testing was in scope.
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