> does this mean nobody in the team/company ran tests until it was time for release? The OP wrote “many platforms supported, a build could take hours, and the

> does this mean nobody in the team/company ran tests until it was time for release? The OP wrote “many platforms supported, a build could take hours, and the test suite took so long to run that it would take several days or weeks of real time to get through it all” ⇒ I think they did run tests, but typically not all of them on all platforms.