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That’s maybe the most romanticized notion I’ve ever read on this website. QA are more like janitors to dev doctors. They are required to know little to nothing
by jimbob45 4y ago
That’s maybe the most romanticized notion I’ve ever read on this website. QA are more like janitors to dev doctors. They are required to know little to nothing in regard to coding, their jobs speciously require creativity, and they’re effortlessly replaceable.
Doctors cannot do their job without nurses. MS just tossed their entire QA staff with no apparent consequences.
- renewiltord 4y agoAbsolutely accurate. QA is not nearly that essential.
- strix_varius 4y agoAgreed. In the places I’ve worked with dedicated manual QA, I’ve tended to see net negative impact. It can be like working with someone who has the technical understanding of a user, but with write access to Jira, and whose reason for employment is predicated on being a blocker with some frequency. The best places I’ve worked have instead had engineering cultures of robust automated testing, real-time monitoring, and continuous delivery.
- philistine 4y agoSounds like you’re not working in video games, where QA is far more common and useful.
- strix_varius 4y agoTrue