JDAQA · Human QA Reference

Where Humans Are Required

16 categories · Best example per category · Human QA hours benchmarked at ½ of traditional dev effort

Total Dev Effort
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across all examples
Total Human QA
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baseline minimum
Ratio
1 : 0.5
dev to human QA
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# Category & Example Dev Hrs QA Hrs
The ratio isn't arbitrary. Every hour of AI-assisted development compresses build time but does not compress the perceptual, physical, and contextual surface area that must be validated by a human. AI produces coverage of known paths. Human QA hours produce validation of the experience.