QA stands for many things:

- Quality Assurance – ” I assure you there is Quality.”
- Quality Assistance – ” We can assist you with the quality.”
- Quality Advocacy – „My client is innocent; the bugs were there already.”
- Quality Abandonment – „We gave up on quality years ago.”
- Quality Anarchy -„We stand against Quality Control!”
- Quality Acronym – „Quite Unusually Approachable Labour Ignoring Trained Yetis”
- Quality Activism – „Quality! Quality! Quality! Quality! Quality! Quality!”
- Quality Abstinence – „For 20 years we stand against Quality Control!
- Quality Atheism – „We don’t believe in quality.”
- Quality Apostle – „And on the 3rd day he raised and fixed a bug.”
- Quality Agnostic -„Quality may or may not exist so far we have no proof.”
- Quality Abstract – „Quality is not applicable or practical.”
- Quality Academic – „Quality is a purely theoretical or speculative concept.”
- Quality Abusive – „Our product is of high quality; it crashes only once per minute!”
- Quality Accident – „We had quality once we don’t know how it happened.”
- Quality Absent – „We haven’t seen it since 2002…”
- Quality Acid – {censored}
- Quality Adult – „I am an adult! I can care about my quality on my own”
- Quality Adventure – „We don’t make bugs we have happy accidents.”
- Quality Age – Happened around 14 billion years ago.
- Quality Aid – „Don’t worry about quality. The team of testers is on their way to help You!”
- Quality Adjunct – „A Quality person working on a team, project without full or permanent status.”
- Quality Agent – „A spy in service of Quality.”
- Quality Affair – „We’ve done some testing once, but it was a long time ago and did not count!”
- Quality Ad – „Your project is breaking? Are your customers unhappy? Quality will resolve or your problems!”
- Quality Adequate – „Eh this will suffice.”
- Quality Afternoon – „when all developers are gone, and only testers stay.”
- Quality Air – Perri-Air
- Quality Addict– „One more bug, can You fix just one more bug?”
- Quality Ally – „We stand with Quality!”
- Quality Already – „We have build quality in”
- Quality Alternative – Bugs
- Quality Always – Mythical concept that doesn’t exist.
- Quality Amazed – „Woah it works!”
- Quality Ambulance – „Did someone here call for some Quality?”
- Quality Ancient – „I remember in 1965 when we went live, and customers loved it…”
- Quality Anger -„Pain and destruction that is what was left…”
- Quality Animal – „When you find a developer willing to fix some issues.”
- Quality Annoyed – „This is broken, but I will no longer raise the bug.”
- Quality Anxious – „I worry our customers won’t like our product.”
- Quality Apprentice – ” At last we will reveal ourselves to the Developers. At last, we will have revenge.”
- Quality Appart -„Here is our project, somewhere there is quality.”
- Quality Apologist – „The current state of the project is just fine!”
- Quality Argonaut – Tester going on a journey of finding quality.
- Quality Appearance – „We will hide all the bug under this feature.”
- Quality Approximate – „What we have is kinda similar to what You’ve expected.”
- Quality Armed – “I have this ticket to prove I was right!”
- Quality Army – That’s just a rumour.
- Quality Artist – „I don’t think I like the feeling this application gives me…”
- Quality Avoidance – “Look, it’s a tester! HIDE!”
That’s All!
It goes without saying this article is satire.
Thanks to Alexi and DragonQA for inspiration.
What about you? Do you know some other versions of QA? Share them with me!