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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does anyone have the template for this meme?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Damn every day it gets worse to find images u can embed... Tried more than 10 before, half is gone, other half redirects to site/post... Anyway here's one without the text:

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

User Research: Exists

Devs:

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 6 months ago (13 children)

I do QA for a living. If that's the end result, it wasn't intuitive. 😅

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I agree to a point, but users also do some weird stuff that you just can't predict sometimes.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

To be fair all "users" got what they wanted so... Success?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

"Ugh, it works, but it was overly complicated to get what I needed."

[–] [email protected] 72 points 6 months ago (2 children)

"The only intuitive interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned." — traditional 20th-century folk wisdom.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Some babies have to be taught to nurse...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Bottles have nipples

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[+] [email protected] -38 points 6 months ago (8 children)

A) People still get paid to do dedicated QA?

B) If you really think that, you must be a noob.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

A) Yes. Large companies have entire departments dedicated to QA, and it's best not to leave QA to devs, if you can afford it. Dunno what you mean by "still," since the job never went away.

B) Okay?

[+] [email protected] -29 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Yes grasshopper.

I was a QA for over 15 years.

Then the "Agile" fad ripped through the industry and QA died.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

When did you retire? Agile has been around for at least 20 years, more like 30 if you count scrum being introduced before agile was formally defined. No matter how critical I am of agile it is hardly a fad at this point

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Still working.

I stopped being able to find QA work in the early 2010s or so. Converted to BI Developer. Have not encountered a dedicated QA at any of the small assortment of jobs I have had since.

Edit: And fair, despite it being a waste of time cult mentality engineered to make developers suffer and enshitify software quality, Agile got enough Kool aid drinkers to qualify it as more than a fad.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I work at a company whose entire business model is providing QA to other companies. I work directly with some very large, public companies, and some smaller ones. Almost all of them have some form of dedicated in-house QA, which we supplement.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In Agile, QA testing should be involved throughout the whole development process, with QA not just following the development, but supporting it. QA testing should be implemented early and continuously, with constant feedback to developers to ensure that any issues are fixed quickly.

Hmmm...

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago

Which, when put to practice, means QAs become BAs, no comprehensive QA occurs, and when the code is shit because they have no actual QA support and the scope changes constantly with no firm documented requirements, the dev gets fired.

Great model for people who like to sit in meetings and complain.

Horrible model for the people who actually work.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

Dunno what to tell you. I do QA for a living. I see postings all the time for QA positions in other companies, and my company has had QA for at least two decades, with the department expanding over the last three years.