alt Hacker NewsDo people still hire QA?
Over the last 16 years all I've seen is people implying (heavily) that they can replace QA with "good enough unit tests"..
Which then inevitably leads to bugs, and performance regressions and developers doing their own QA.
I honestly think that all of this is a psyop to get devs to do more, that and "devops" which is either rebranded sysadmins, or developers working as yaml monkeys between code reviews and feature development.
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jamesfinlayson • today at 4:18 AM
> "good enough unit tests"
Good enough end to end tests then maybe.
Yeah I've seen both approaches. Either teams do their own QA or we have a dedicated function. Depends on the domain to some extent. Both can work. But I don't hear people saying stupid shit anymore like "QA is a cost center". When we have it, everyone understands the value.