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Damn. Guess I'll stop QAing my own work from now.
by _2d30 8mo ago
Damn. Guess I'll stop QAing my own work from now.
- Spivak 8mo agoI mean there is some wisdom to that, most teams separate dev and qa and writers aren't their own editors precisely because it's hard for the author of a thing to spot their own mistakes. When you merge them into one it's usually a cost saving measure accepting that quality control will take a hit.
- meheleventyone 8mo agoUh, yeah, thh hi is has been considered bad practice for decades.
- ryan_n 8mo agoThat is often how software development has been done the past several decades yea... Not to say that you don't review your own work, but it's good practice for others (or at least one other person) to review it/QA it as well.
- slopinthebag 8mo agoYou're making a false equivalence between a human being with agency and intelligence, and a machine.
- rhubarbtree 8mo agoAre humans not machines?
- sarchertech 8mo agoThat’s something that more than half of humans would disagree with (exact numbers vary but most polls show that more than 75% of people globally believe that humans have a soul or spirit). But ignoring that, if humans are machines, they are sufficiently advanced machines that we have only a very modest understanding of and no way to replicate. Our understanding of ourselves is so limited that we might as well be magic.
- jatari 8mo ago>if humans are machines, they are sufficiently advanced machines that we have only a very modest understanding of and no way to replicate Well, ignoring the whole literal replication thing humans do.
- sarchertech 8mo agoObviously by replicate I meant building a synthetic human.
- rhubarbtree 7mo agoSo good we're magic. So bad we think we're magic.
- slopinthebag 7mo agoObviously not? Like how is that a serious question...
- habinero 8mo agoYeah, someone should invent code review.
- alistairSH 8mo agoYes. That’s not a best practice. That’s why PRs and peer reviews and test automation suite exist.
- akdev1l 8mo agoI think it is common for one to write their own tests tho
- alistairSH 8mo agoHe said QA. QA is more than just unit tests.
- akdev1l 8mo agoWhatever level of automated testing, it’s all usually done by the same people who wrote the software to begin with
- lioeters 8mo agoThis but unironically. Of course review your own work. But QA is best done by people other than those who develop the product. Having another set of eyes to check your work is as old as science.