Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a QA Team
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Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a QA Team
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Re: Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a QA Team
#2If this is working so well, why is there still no version of Yahoo Messenger—a core product—for either Mac OS X or iOS?
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#3I can see why this would work in a place that uses QA as a crutch.
All developers should aim for no bugs and test their stuff themselves but of course when deadlines are looming its easier to just code and let the QA team pick it up.
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#4TL;DR: They fired the QA team to save money. Then they made the engineers do the QA work for no extra pay.
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#5Yahoo's main issue is UX and usability, not software quality, so this sounds like another way of saying Yahoo laid off its QA team.
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#6There's no way this could end badly...
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#7Great. I worked for a company that didn't invest in QA, it was consistently a !@#$% mess. When you do this, the need simply shifts to the customer. I wouldn't install our software until the 4th or 5th hotfix patch was available.
Certainly, I'm an advocate of a more responsible dev team sharing the quality tasks and continuous integration too. But no QA at all? Hahah... maybe if you're a web portal that no one depends on for business-critical needs.
Edit: I guess the truth hurts.
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#8TL;DR: They fired the QA team to save money. Then they made the engineers do the QA work for no extra pay.
Well, that takes away from the other work than can do - and may incentivize them to more thoroughly check their work as they go. It could be a fairly big improvement to efficiency.
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#9TL;DR: They fired the QA team to save money. Then they made the engineers do the QA work for no extra pay.
Your snark gave me a good laugh.
Re: Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a QA Team
#10TL;DR: They fired the QA team to save money. Then they made the engineers do the QA work for no extra pay.
I think that is a slightly harsh assessment. They forced the engineers to stop shipping shoddy code, so the QA team wasn't necessary in their opinion.
However I think there is probably a middle ground where your engineers deliver quality code and you also have a QA team to increase that quality even further.