I think you guys are also probably forgetting that L4D2 is right around the corner and I'm sure their QA people are busy playtesting that.
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 15:37 -0700, Ook wrote: > It's not so much that devs are not so good at testing their own code. I've > been writing code for 20 years, and I can test my code as well as the next > person can. It's that we don't have the time to spend 10 hours testing a > code change that only took us 20 minutes to make. I code it, I perform basic > tests to make sure I didn't do something stupid, and I send it to the QA > department to spend the next 10 hours testing the entire system to make sure > I didn't break anything. We get paid to code - let someone who gets paid > half as much as us spend their day testing code. It is a really stupid > business practice to rely on devs to test code changes. > > In Valve's case, the devs perform preliminary testing and then they publish > it to the world to let us, the QA team aka customers test it :) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Keeper" <[email protected]> > To: "'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 2:11 PM > Subject: Re: [hlds] Left 4 Dead Update Available > > > > Agreed. 100% > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Midnight [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 5:04 PM > > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > > Subject: Re: [hlds] Left 4 Dead Update Available > > > > This is why software companies have QA teams, Developers are not good at > > finding bugs since they are too close to their own code. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
