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Wow, my hat is off to you - that's a hell of a bug and excellent reporting when you were on a completely different team. I think this is the reason why, as QA,
by lobotryas 13y ago
Wow, my hat is off to you - that's a hell of a bug and excellent reporting when you were on a completely different team. I think this is the reason why, as QA, I have greater affinity to Ops people of all stripes than Dev or PM. Those Ops people who care about their servers or look at the big picture of the deployed environment are a huge multiplier to my testing and understanding of core systems.
Also agreed with your position in respect to the person you're replying to. :)
- nknighthb 13y agoServer QA can be every bit as valuable to ops, and not just by preemptively finding bugs. At that company, I ended up adjacent to the server QA team. They effectively became an extension of the ops team. Many an hour were spent with one side or the other talking to a disembodied head over the cubicle wall, or with me outright sitting in their cubicle. Emails and IMs were a constant. They saved our asses in the field many times. They also wrote a lot of our usable documentation. On my way out, I recommended one of them to replace me. Shortly thereafter, he did. Years later, I think he's actually the ops manager now. I wouldn't mind working for him, but political BS drove me out of that company, and pretty much any other company that big.