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If a developer's reaction to a client-facing defect is "QA didn't catch it", you have cultural problems that firing a QA team probably won't fix. If you don't h
by daxelrod 16y ago
If a developer's reaction to a client-facing defect is "QA didn't catch it", you have cultural problems that firing a QA team probably won't fix. If you don't have a culture of personal responsibility, a finger can always be pointed elsewhere.
Developers should absolutely write and use unit tests. Where QA really shines in the larger scale: validating actual business requirements.
- awj 16y agoExactly. For me, every client-facing defect is an embarrassing personal failure. Having them caught in QA simply lessens the shame, and allows me to dedicate all the time I would spend freaking out about the newfound emergency to figuring out improvements that eliminate that entire class of errors.