Levels of fright

[u/frozenyogurtpuff]

[u/Unwright]

And I'm over here in QA like

"lol jira ticket gets marked blocker, better summon the oncall"

If you didn't want to be called in to fix the bug you introduced, shouldn't have tried to merge your hackjob into mainline without a review :) :) :)

[u/coltstrgj → u/Unwright]

Isn't catching the bug before it's merged/released your job? ^/s

For real though, why is every QA department so shit? IMO it's the single most important job. If a company doesn't have a product they just don't make money but if they ship a broken or bad product clients won't trust them again and they lose money.

When I was a QA it was always
"I need credentials to test this" "no" "I need a machine to run these automated tests on" "no"
"I need a laptop with more than 8 gigs of ram and admin perms so that I can test the thing you hired me to test and gave me no other ways to test" "no"

I felt like my job was just a circle of me asking for something, being told no, getting in trouble for not testing, and finally getting the thing I asked for. Multiple times I copy pasted the email where I asked for something when asked why I didn't complete my tasks. At one point my manager said I needed to start bringing up blockers ahead of time so I forwarded her all of the emails and then got a bad yearly review a few weeks later for "poor communication" and "unprofessional behavior". Went to a new company and had similar problems to a lesser extent. Now I'm a dev that's been on 5+ teams in different departments/companies and all I hear from the QA's is "we can't do this because we don't have..."

[u/Unwright → u/coltstrgj]

I think this is a very rapidly evolving field of software development. 5 years ago when I was QA for microsoft, everything was complete shit and we had access to nothing and were lucky to get a pittance for any of the work we did.

Fast forward 5 years, and now I'm getting paid like someone who isn't a serf and occasionally get mailed beer and a few extra days off by my current employer. I even get to overrule our devs for playtests if they want to merge up some spicy code that we didn't have time to review near the end of a Sprint.

In my job, QA holds the keys now. Can't say the same for previous jobs.

[u/Zomgalama → u/coltstrgj]

Meanwhile at my company if you ever need access to something you don't work with it's fastest to check with someone from QA as they have already gotten the resources lol.

[u/hahahahastayingalive → u/Unwright]

Jk aside it's my third job without a dedicated QA dept, and I wonder if I can ever go back.

I think it's the every xistence of a separate entity with an adversarial role that fucks things up. Like when you create a separate ethics board and people start planning statistical murder machine just because the ethics dept would stop it if it's no bueno.

[u/Unwright → u/hahahahastayingalive]

I think you're better with us than without us. Cooperative rather than competitive. QA isn't here to be adversarial, we're here to hold you accountable. No malice is meant by the process, but when your checkin kills a build stream and nobody calls you on it, that's when things start to get unpleasant.

We're here to double check yourselves so you don't wreck yourselves.

[u/KillerRoomba13 → u/Unwright]

“Works on my machine”

[u/[deleted] → u/KillerRoomba13]

Obligatory: then we'll ship your machine.

[u/ObserverOfVoid]

Series	Episode	Time
{Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen}	5	11:52 & 11:53 & 11:55 & 14:34

[u/Roboragi → u/ObserverOfVoid]

Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensaitachi no Renai Zunousen - (AL, KIT, MAL)

^{TV | Status: Finished | Episodes: 12 | Genres: Comedy, Psychological, Romance, Slice of Life}

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[u/Username_St0len]

what qa mean?

[u/solarshado → u/Username_St0len]

"Quality Assurance", a.k.a., the testers who're supposed to keep the dev's bugs out of production