I see this problem in a lot of high tech companies. Their interview process try to hire the sharpest engineers. However the process does not check whether these sharp engineers have any patience or interest in debugging their code. They just throw the code to QA. QA often consists of sharp but less experience engineers who want to eventually transfer to development. Unfortunately, the following equation is not always true: sharpest development engineers + sharpest QA engineers = reliable software.
On Sep 27, 10:53 am, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > (Anyone for a "High priority" issue which has been open for over 2 years - > >http://code.google.com/p/datanucleus-appengine/issues/detail?id=86) > > Not implementing a feature is not the same as constantly breaking a tool > being used in production. > > > , or think back to when a bunch of people lost their emails and contacts > > due to a Gmail update (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20037554-93.html). > > We're all software developers - we all know that despite best efforts > sometimes shit happens. Keyword: *sometimes*. And when that happened they > issued a statement and explained what happened. > > When the Market breaks it's about once a week and there isn't so much as a > tweet about what happened, what they're doing to fix it, or what they're > doing to prevent it from happening again. > > Can you imagine if Gmail was as buggy or periodically broken as the Market > with zero feedback to users? > > If you want to bring it closer to home; How many of us have hit issues with > > > the ADT? > > Certainly - but A) ADT is free and open source and B) how many us have seen > Xavier and company help out and rush to fix issues with ADT when they're > discussed here? > > Where is the Market response and rush to fix issues when they happen? > > I don't think anyone here expects the Market to be perfect (I certainly > don't). But for $25 and 30% per sale, I do expect some semblance of > stability for a product that people depend on to run their businesses, > accountability for the never-ending issues, and some goddamn communication > with users that have to bear weight of their colossal ineptitude. > > There are some great engineers at Google, but the quality control has always > > > been rough, so to me this is just par for the course. > > Do you really believe all of Google's products are equally "unstable"? I > think that if Google's Search or Gmail products were run like the Market the > company would have gone bankrupt long ago. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago > transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
