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creddityesterday at 11:08 PM7 repliesview on HN

Damn. Guess I'll stop QAing my own work from now.


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lioetersyesterday at 11:32 PM

This but unironically. Of course review your own work. But QA is best done by people other than those who develop the product. Having another set of eyes to check your work is as old as science.

ryan_nyesterday at 11:15 PM

That is often how software development has been done the past several decades yea...

Not to say that you don't review your own work, but it's good practice for others (or at least one other person) to review it/QA it as well.

slopinthebagyesterday at 11:17 PM

You're making a false equivalence between a human being with agency and intelligence, and a machine.

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alistairSHyesterday at 11:27 PM

Yes. That’s not a best practice. That’s why PRs and peer reviews and test automation suite exist.

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Spivakyesterday at 11:13 PM

I mean there is some wisdom to that, most teams separate dev and qa and writers aren't their own editors precisely because it's hard for the author of a thing to spot their own mistakes.

When you merge them into one it's usually a cost saving measure accepting that quality control will take a hit.

meheleventyoneyesterday at 11:13 PM

Uh, yeah, thh hi is has been considered bad practice for decades.

habineroyesterday at 11:22 PM

Yeah, someone should invent code review.