1.8Exercises: Chapter 1

[Beginner] Exercise 1.1: Assess your current role. Make two columns: one for gatekeeper activities you currently do, and one for quality coach activities. Which column is longer? Identify one activity from the coach column you could start doing this sprint.

[Beginner] Exercise 1.2: Write a one-paragraph description of your role as a QA engineer using the quality coach framing. Focus on prevention, collaboration, and continuous improvement rather than finding bugs.

[Intermediate] Exercise 1.3: Propose one process change to your team that would shift testing earlier in the workflow. Write a brief pitch (3-5 sentences) explaining the change and its expected benefit.

[Advanced] Exercise 1.4: Track the "bugs found by phase" metric for your next three sprints. Categorize each bug by when it was found: requirements, development, testing, or production. Is the distribution shifting left over time?