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Re:Why the Fuck? by stingraycharles on Sunday January 20, 2013 @07:48PM (#5089084)
Off-topic, but I'm curious how you handled that situation. Personally, a safe-guard I might build in would be to audit our code by an independent third-party. Was this at all feasible in your situation, and/or how did you handle QA?
Re:Why the Fuck? by Ingon on Sunday January 20, 2013 @09:43PM (#5089526)
Well... External QA for app which costs 2.99$ (or less at times)? No. We just tried to make sure it worked properly - some code reviews, several unit tests to cover some nasty edge cases and that's it. I really hope everybody is alive and well. :)

Also it did help that the users grew confident in it over time. It was not like these overnight success stories (not even success story) which you hear all over the news :)

Re:Why the Fuck? by Evbn on Sunday January 20, 2013 @08:14PM (#5089204)
When I was a kid, volunteering at a hospital for Community Service, I was assigned a task to transfer pills from bottles to those plastic + foil single serving wrappers using a hot glue machine, and deliver said pills to the wards. I had no training, supervision, or QA/QC in this job.