If it’s to discuss Continuous Quality here, on this forum, then we’d need to have some shared agreement on what Continuous Quality is. What does it suggest? What does it include? What are its principles?
When we understand that we’re talking about the same thing we can pull it apart. What the benefits are, when you would and wouldn’t do it, the impact it has on testability, and so on.
Until then the discussion will always be about what everyone thinks that it means.
On the face of it “continuous quality” doesn’t really mean anything at all. Continuous means unbroken and uninterrupted. Quality is a subjective value relationship between people and things. So continuous quality, if we ignore it as a brand label and discuss it as a term, means people having opinions all the time. If we want it to invoke some other meaning in our discussion we have to figure out what we all consent to that being.
If I go online and look it up I find a handful of people claiming to define it. Often people define testing ideas online that I consider to be somewhere between nonsense and harmful, usually to drive traffic rather than inform or discuss, so I’m wary of the fallibility of those oracles. We could treat these as shared oracles as a starting point and build a better definition based on what we agree to be true. But only with that definition, some shared values, and a shared goal could we then properly question what it is, when it’s useful or harmful, and the impact it has on testing and testers.
If I’m learning it because someone claims to be implementing it in a way that affects me I’d ask that person all about what they think they mean. Sometimes people say that they do things but have a different idea of what that is to me.
I honestly don’t know what to pick in the voting. I which it were checkboxes with multiple possible answers instead of radio buttons!
But overall my learning process
So I picked “something else” because it starts with Googling. Which will eventually lead me to blogs, videos and books & forums. If I then have questions or want to ask questions about something, you ask them on the MoT Forum.