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Do they literally not have a QA department or what? You'd think this sort of thing would be caught by automated testing.
by bobcostas55 5y ago
Do they literally not have a QA department or what? You'd think this sort of thing would be caught by automated testing.
- pram 5y agoThey famously do not.
- n8cpdx 5y agoThey fired all their SDETs ~2014, and the decline in quality since then has been very noticeable. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-layoffs-operating-systems-group-chief-myersons-memo-to-the-troops/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-layoffs-operating-sy... There's lots of criticism about how that role was structured, but putting devs in charge of their own code's quality is a recipe for poor quality software. It works on my machine doesn't work with a product like Windows.