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Facebook is a multi-billion dollar company. This is gross negligence if they didn't spend time to QA this.
by bluntfang 8y ago
Facebook is a multi-billion dollar company. This is gross negligence if they didn't spend time to QA this.
- Phobophobia 8y agoJust to be devil's advocate: Google is notorious for having separate siloed teams that do not share efficiencies or updates (eg. Hangouts and other messengers). A company like Google and Facebook don't have a good excuse, but we shouldn't be surprised.
- jayawayjayyay 8y agoDoing QA at large tech companies is never that simple. You have lots of teams that share code. Imagine a scenario where Team A uses code written by Team B which uses code written by Team C. Team C makes a change to their code that breaks Team B's code but only for the way Team A uses it.
- yardie 8y agoFor the people in the back, "Facebook is a multi-billion dollar company." They have 30,000 employees. They could spend the money to do better QA. But it's cheaper to let your end-users do it for free.
- sethammons 8y agoOne way to combat this is to let other teams register tests in other team's projects. If a test fails, you know it breaks someone's expectations. From there, you work with that team to update both sides.
- bluntfang 8y agoIt doesn't matter if it's simple or not. We can't hold these 1k+ engineer teams to the same accountability levels as a 3 person team. When, as engineering professionals, are we going to put an end to this? This is completely unacceptable in any other engineering discipline.
- chongli 8y agoGross negligence? It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair