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Situation: You have a separate QA team or SDET embedded with your team. When should QA / SDET test a new feature? 3 options: 1. Before merge, in an ephemeral environment, or by pairing with dev 2. After merge in QA/UAT/staging environment 3. In prod My take? Prefer 1. 1/2

Now you can end up with two new problems: 1 it delays merging leading to lots more open merges and unmerged work, 2 unless you constantly rebase all those branches you’re not testing what you get when it’s merged and problems start appearing downstream.