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Re:Quality assurance workers at Activision Blizzard subsidia... by jimbob45 on Monday May 23, 2022 @11:24PM (#31487659)
That’s maybe the most romanticized notion I’ve ever read on this website. QA are more like janitors to dev doctors. They are required to know little to nothing in regard to coding, their jobs speciously require creativity, and they’re effortlessly replaceable.

Doctors cannot do their job without nurses. MS just tossed their entire QA staff with no apparent consequences.

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Re:Quality assurance workers at Activision Blizzard subsidia... by strix_varius on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @12:58AM (#31488169)
Agreed. In the places I’ve worked with dedicated manual QA, I’ve tended to see net negative impact.

It can be like working with someone who has the technical understanding of a user, but with write access to Jira, and whose reason for employment is predicated on being a blocker with some frequency.

The best places I’ve worked have instead had engineering cultures of robust automated testing, real-time monitoring, and continuous delivery.

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Re:Quality assurance workers at Activision Blizzard subsidia... by philistine on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @04:26AM (#31489453)
Sounds like you’re not working in video games, where QA is far more common and useful.
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Re:Quality assurance workers at Activision Blizzard subsidia... by strix_varius on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @12:42PM (#31494382)
True
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Re:Quality assurance workers at Activision Blizzard subsidia... by renewiltord on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @12:53AM (#31488149)
Absolutely accurate. QA is not nearly that essential.
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