On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 4:51 AM Alan Bourke <alanpbou...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > What's actually happened is described pretty well in this article - > basically they laid off a load of traditional QA and testing professionals > in 2014 and are now relying on some sort of crowdsourced bullshit for QA, > using people who are on the beta releases, i.e.e fanboys. > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/23/microsoft_windows_10_crisis/ Thanks for the excellent link. Sorry to hear about the MS testers who got canned. I know the Fox engineers did some amazing work to get us a high quality product. It's funny how Linux can ship good code with crowd-sourced testing, and Apache and OpenSSH and the open-source communities that power DNS and email and the rest. I suspect there has been a long process of developing the protocols and processes to make that a success. And also that it's not just guys living in their parent's basements: RedHat and IBM and Dell and HP contribute their own software and have pretty serious engineering efforts. "Throw it over the wall and see how loud they scream" is not a testing methodology. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4u+hRiQOJA9mPw=odcwffnrsw0w50yt2nuhuvxgypn...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
