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A software conference that advocates for quality

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127 points leoncaet | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 21:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | 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. popularonion ◴[12 Jul 25 11:16 UTC] No.44541189[source]▶
Every company I’ve seen that maintains a separate QA org chart, inevitably offshores the entire QA org to India or China, with predictable results.

In 2025 I think the only thing that makes sense is having SDETs embedded in development teams.