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A software conference that advocates for quality

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114 points leoncaet | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 21:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.249s | source
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supportengineer ◴[12 Jul 25 05:29 UTC] No.44539559[source]▶
I’ve seen one company in my 30 year career with effective quality control.

The QE engineers and the development engineers were in entirely separate branches of the org chart. They had different incentive structures. The interface documentation was the source of truth.

The release cadence was slow. QE had absolute authority to stop a release. QE wrote more code than development engineers did with their tests and test automation.

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1. djaychela ◴[12 Jul 25 05:59 UTC] No.44539694[source]▶
Was the end result better or worse for this? I'm not being facetious, I just can't get if you think it was a good idea!