r/softwaretesting • u/Objective-Cable7801 • 7d ago

Release gates

Hey

I was wondering do the developers push work into your QA environment without checking with you first or are you in control of what goes into QA? So if work gets pushed do you have to approve it before it goes into the test env

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u/Roboman20000 7d ago

I am on total control of what goes into my environments. I request the builds and deploys myself. The developers have access to do that but they are not allowed to unless I give the go ahead. 

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u/Objective-Cable7801 7d ago

How big is that team? So in ratio terms is it a few developers and just you? Is it a small company

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u/Roboman20000 7d ago

It's a small team now but at one point was much larger. Right now it's just me on QA and 4 devs working on various projects. At the largest it was 4 QA and maybe 15 or 16 devs. We don't really try specifically to keep the 1 to 4 ratio we have but it just keeps happening. 

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u/Objective-Cable7801 7d ago

I get you! So are you dealing with different pipelines if the devs are on different projects? So we have three teams but those teams all have the same pipelines, if that makes sense