I agree with some of the points, but the "EXTREME STATEMENT IN BOLD" cliche has to die already. I suppose you can say "Qa environment suck" but you can also sa

I agree with some of the points, but the "EXTREME STATEMENT IN BOLD" cliche has to die already. I suppose you can say "Qa environment suck" but you can also say "Make your QA environments not suck, by investing time keeping them very close to production" (i.e. same OS, same timezone, same stack, very similar DB, minimal mocking).