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1.11What not to say
- "I test everything thoroughly" -- signals lack of prioritization; no team can test everything, and claiming otherwise shows inexperience.
- "We just need more test cases" -- confuses quantity with quality; more tests are not the answer, better-targeted tests are.
- "Testing is the last step before release" -- reveals a phase-gate mindset instead of a strategic, integrated approach.
- "I rely on my intuition to know what to test" -- suggests ad hoc thinking with no data-driven framework.
- "Quality is QA's responsibility" -- misses that quality is an engineering-wide discipline, not a team silo.