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Re: Ask HN: How do you handle QA at a startup with no QA team? Genuinely curious
#12Everyone is QA at a startup. I hope y'all are using your own product regularly right? You should have a nice simple way to raise these issues, maybe a slack channel or something with a convenient way to turn a screenshot into an item in your todo/work system if you have one. Encourage product ownership. Alternatively, if you don't really care about the product, everyone is also customer support at a startup - you sho…
I second this.
Re: Ask HN: How do you handle QA at a startup with no QA team? Genuinely curious
#13QA should not be done by the same entity writing code.
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#18I'm doing a lot of QA in my startups. There are several layers:
1. One model (Opus) writes a code, another model (Sonnet, Qwen, Kimi) writes unit tests using requirements and code;
2. Full code review by me. Just to understand what is going on in the codebase;
2. Integration tests are running with PlayWright MCP. Another model validates UI per requirements;
3. Substantive runtime tests prepared by me or human QA team. All features should be included into testing, plus regression testing of existing features, plus edge cases.
QA in AI era becomes more important than coding skills. So keep it in a good shape.
Re: Ask HN: How do you handle QA at a startup with no QA team? Genuinely curious
#19Everyone does QA at a startup. There is no dedicated QA. If you're a developer, you're doing QA. Product, whatever your job title is, you're doing QA.
Why though?
I guess I never understood this perspective because it's such an unproductive use of a developers or product person's time to be doing QA.
I guess everyone will use/test the product to some degree, but if you're trying to assure quality, isn't it better to have a dedicated QA?
Re: Ask HN: How do you handle QA at a startup with no QA team? Genuinely curious
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
And very soon no longer a customer
You'd be surprised. Every software application has bugs. If customers are willing to give you money despite bugs that's a very string signal in favour of your product.
Tongue in cheek.. But yes. Customer feedback is gold, helps improve the product from real world use.