We originally spelled it qaml which stood for quality assurance, machine learning. That wasn't obvious to anyone and everyone would pronounce it as "qwamel" which we hated so we decided on camelQA instead. Thanks for the question. I was waiting for someone to ask it!
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Why is the branding/mascot a camel?
I'm reminded of Waldo, a mobile testing automation product that was acquired in 2023.
Their mascot is another camelid (not sure if alpaca or llama). https://www.waldo.com/
We originally spelled it qaml which stood for quality assurance, machine learning. That wasn't obvious to anyone and everyone would pronounce it as "qwamel" which we hated so we decided on camelQA instead. Thanks for the question. I was waiting for someone to ask it!
I noticed the first letter in camelQA is very explicitly lower-case. I just assumed someone on the team had very strong opinions about camelCase.