"We get paid to code - let someone who gets paid half as much as us spend their
day testing code. "...." 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 :)"
Do I understand you correctly. They get paid.
A show of hands for any server admins getting paid. Functioning as the QA
department.
Think I missed his point ,if not, He needs a new job that pays more than twice
of nouthing.
Blyte_Scrin
P.S. sorry for sending from hotmail.
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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:37:00 -0700
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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 :)
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