Are QA/QAE necessary?
Do you find QA/QAE’s to be a criticsl asset to your engineering team? Or do you feel they’ve become obsolete? Give me your honest, logical thoughts.* This is not meant to be a caustic debate, just looking to hear how non-QA folks feel about QA as a whole. *unless you work at LinkedIn... You’re basicslly the DMV of SaaS and your opinions dont count.
Yes. Every time I've seen aan org remove this position quality and any kind of testing has taken a big hit
OP, can I please have a random insult too?
Does this work?
I’ve struggled with this at Amazon. How can customer obsession be one of the leadership principles and yet we don’t have a better ratio to devs: quality engineers?
As long as humans will write code, you will need QA .
It's all about quality standards. Which I have to admit went down for so many companies lately. Even apple can release a bag of shit now.
Developers have unconscious bias that doesn't help with testing. It's easy to assume code you wrote works and miss some edge cases.
This whole conception of QA and dev is quite short sighted. Software is automation of an existing process which involves being innovative. The title should stop at software Engineer. What each engineer does is up-to a company. Generalizing roles across an industry is odd.
That’s essentially the scrum philosophy as well.
Quality of software, its correctness is paramount. If you don't mind bugs, I can give you an infinitely fast solution. Agree Fb and L?
Most of the software industry doesn't care about correctness or stable software and generally lacks professionalism. "Just ship this half-assed software as soon as possible" is the attitude at the majority. All testing needs to consider the return on investment. Cold calculation at some orgs led to the concpet of get rid of qa.
Soon to be dead
I’d love to hear why you think that! I’m guessing it’s because you work at LinkedIn and fired all your QA. You guys are kind of an anomaly because you have no real competition and can afford to have a subpar product with frequent bugs compared to FAANG or every other company where customer experience is valued. LinkedIn truly is the DMV of SaaS.