Section 085 · Chapter 10, Anti-Patterns That Create False Confidence
Anti-Patterns: The Old Tester Job Title Trap
Tester, engineer, developer, product manager, QA analyst, SDET, test automation engineer, search quality engineer, and related roles are often too small for the work AI quality now requires.
What to do
- Define runnable checks that exercise tester job title trap.
- Set acceptable outcomes and blocker failures for tester job title trap before running the evaluation.
- Run representative cases for tester job title trap and preserve the failures that would change the decision.
Evidence to preserve
- Preserve the inputs, versions, configurations, raw outcomes, and results for tester job title trap needed to reproduce work on Anti-Patterns: The Old Tester Job Title Trap.
- Report results for tester job title trap by relevant slice, separate blocker failures from averages, state uncertainty and blind spots, and connect the result to a release decision.
Expert note
When the system matters, define the role around outcomes: measuring behavior under uncertainty, building eval infrastructure, using AI-assisted tooling, interpreting statistics, tracing production behavior, and guiding release decisions. The title should reflect that scope. Confidence Engineering is not a renamed QA department; it is the operating discipline for deciding whether AI-produced software and AI-powered services are good enough to trust.
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Jason Arbon. "Anti-Patterns: The Old Tester Job Title Trap." Testing AI Knowledge Edition, section 85.
https://jarbon.ai/testing-ai/knowledge/ch085-tester-job-title-trap.html