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Blaming testing feels like a cop-out - it's easier to say 'if we tested a little more everything would have been fine' rather than 'our leadership was too incom
by bjohnson225 7y ago
Blaming testing feels like a cop-out - it's easier to say 'if we tested a little more everything would have been fine' rather than 'our leadership was too incompotent to recognise that the plan was fundamentally flawed from day one, that releasing in the way we did maximized the risk to customers, or that we decided not to listen to any concerns which would have compromised the timeline'
- coleca 7y agoExactly. Had they done all the proper testing, they would have likely discovered all these issues, it's not a stretch to think that the management that allowed the project to get to the state it was in would have also pushed forward with the go-live despite the bugs that were discovered in testing. And just because they allocated time to testing doesn't mean they would have allocated sufficient time to remediation and re-testing. I've seen it happen where bugs were found late stage in a big-bang style migration, they were remediated, but there wasn't enough time left to conduct another massive mock go-live to make sure it worked. So you hope and pray...