> Test engineers of a "shipped" product should obvioulsy get credited, yet. (I mean, movie credits have the name of cattering people ! You worked on it ? You ge

> Test engineers of a "shipped" product should obvioulsy get credited, yet. (I mean, movie credits have the name of cattering people ! You worked on it ? You get your name in the credits.) No particular deep knowledge here, but: my impression is this was a long and painful push by various unions and agents, with “top billing” becoming an actual thing to be negotiated as part of an actor’s contract, etc. Even having the end credits at all seems to be a workaround for accomodating the enormous number of people who insist on being credited: movies from the 30s seem to be perfectly content to just list the production company, the stars, and maybe the director at the start. Of course, it takes at most a couple generations of professionals to shift from “this is a thing won through hard negotiations” to “this is a thing that everybody is entitled to by common morality”, but my point is it didn’t (appear to) start that way, it had to be squeezed out from the execs over years. (Of course movies also don’t need maintenance or refactoring, at least not in the sense of requiring other actors and camera crews to come in.)