• Slotos@feddit.nl
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      15 hours ago

      Most QA titles have very little to do even with QA itself. If QA doesn’t start at ideation, you’re not doing QA.

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      If you think QAs are software developers, I’d like to know what you think QA stands for. Hint, it doesn’t stand for developer.

      Inb4 “they develop tests”: so an event planner is also a developer then because they “develop a programme” and the words “develop” and “programme” are in the job description.

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        Where I worked QA did nothing else but programming. They were writing automated tests for anything we worked on.

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        There are devs who work in QA, automated tests absolutely need software developers.

        So while not all QA are devs, but some QA absolutely are.

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        If you’re trying to hint that Quality Assurance doesn’t have “developer” in the title, therefore they aren’t part of development, I better tell all of the programmers, tech leads and game directors I know that they aren’t real developers either.

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          Bro, what? Being part of the development process doesn’t make you a developer. The hell? So you think somebody who has never even seen a line of code and manages a team of developers is a developer? You seriously want to tell me that the finance director of a construction company can call himself a builder because he manages the money needed to pay the builders? Jeff Bezos is a top paid developer at Amazon because he developed a strategy to R&D the fuck out everything and signed off on a product?

          Also, I thought it was obvious that my sentence about a “programme developer” not being a software developer would make it pretty obvious, that the presence or lack of “developer” in the title isn’t the defining attribute of the job.

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