Re:Asking developers to do QA is broken – why anyone should ...
by tjpnz on Thursday July 01, 2021 @09:02AM
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>Asking developers to own QA is broken because developers are naturally biased towards the happy path.
I've been arguing the same thing for a while now. There's a clear mismatch in incentives. If you hand off the QA to developers you might initially get less bug reports but that doesn't mean your software isn't garbage.
Some of the best QA engineers I've worked with were developers in a previous life but they've since spent years cultivating a very different way of thinking about software. Believing you can get your engineers to adopt that mindset overnight is pure fantasy.
I've been arguing the same thing for a while now. There's a clear mismatch in incentives. If you hand off the QA to developers you might initially get less bug reports but that doesn't mean your software isn't garbage.
Some of the best QA engineers I've worked with were developers in a previous life but they've since spent years cultivating a very different way of thinking about software. Believing you can get your engineers to adopt that mindset overnight is pure fantasy.