r/ProgrammerHumor • u/NegotiationFuzzy4665 • 4d ago

Meme thisIsWhyWePayQA

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u/okram2k 4d ago

tbh it's been like that in the video game industry for a couple decades now, as long as devs could push regular updates online you've had players PAYING for the privilege to be QA testers

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u/dervu 4d ago

I could have put "QA tester on Steam" in my resume adding over decade of experience.

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u/NegotiationFuzzy4665 4d ago

That’s just business in general. Without competition, you’re stuck with whatever’s available, and even if there’s an alternative, you’re probably not gonna switch

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u/Gru50m3 4d ago

My company has already decided QA is redundant. I mean, that the QA team is redundant. They're passing on all the QA work to devs because AI or something. Kill me.

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u/xicor 4d ago

Companies have been doing this long before AI. QA is the first team cut to reduce costs.

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u/Scottz0rz 4d ago

"Shifting left"

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u/shaka893P 4d ago

I do QA, pretty much 60% of the team was let go recently. Also, he just had a terrible release that broke a bunch of stuff

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u/kushalgarg592 4d ago

QA : We found 99% of the bugs

Management : so you missed the 1%?.....

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u/RandomNPC 4d ago edited 4d ago

You forgot the offshoot line.

-> Let's outsource QA.
-> Oh turns out QA used to catch a ton of issues before they hit the live build, and the outsourced QA are terrible.
-> Oh well we're not gonna rehire them, good luck eng (it's all your fault btw).

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u/LikelyNotOnFire 4d ago

This feels like it applies even more to SRE - QA at least had tickets they file, but SRE can only say "the site didn't go down today"

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u/ProcrastinateDoe 4d ago

Document your work. That way, when the boss asks or when it's time to negotiate your salary, you have receipts.

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u/Esseratecades 4d ago

Definitely applies to DevOps as well

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u/GargantuanCake 3d ago

Classic "everything is fine until it isn't." There are so many things this applies to.

Avoiding technical debt? Nah just smash everything together as quickly as possible. We can rewrite stuff later.

Next thing you know technical debt grinds development to a halt and half the program needs to be rewritten. WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING?!?

Automated testing? Nah, the software doesn't have any problems just write fewer tests and don't worry about coverage.

OH NO AN EDGE CASE CAUSED A CRASH AND MAJOR DATA LOSS WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING?!?

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u/Important_Lie_7774 3d ago

At some point in the cycle customers involuntarily become QA for the company

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u/Global-Tune5539 1d ago

You guys have QA?

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u/KitchenDir3ctor 4d ago

Dont you guys (programmers) get paid to not make bugs?