QA is awesome.

I think people are responding to the suggestion that in general developers will subconsciously protect their ego by willfully ignoring flaws in their own software. That is just tremendously offensive to any real hacker, and if it were true the world of software would be a pale shadow of what it is today.

I don't think it's a slam on developers - I've hit and played outfield, and I know what each side feels like. It's not that developers wants to ship bad software, but haven't you ever avoided running a test because you're afraid of opening a can of worms? QA wants to open that can. There's a perverse glee in seeing all the worms get out.

When a new bug is found (a good one, not BS indentation) then QA has a justifiable joy in finding it before it got to the customer. The developer may also be devoted to quality, but doesn't your heart sink a little when you see a new bug? Overall you both want to ship good product, but your minute-to-minute motivations are just different.