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by AnimalMuppet 1843 days ago
Automated QA is great at following the script. Manual QA is better at going off-script.

For example, that box on our Windows UI on our product that lets you paste a list of IP address or machine names? It was manual QA that decided to try pasting a 2 Meg Windows executable into that window. The app did not handle that very well...