He was talking about other companies (or internal QA if Valve uses them). This is coming from someone who has worked as a QA person is several high profile companies (such as Microsoft).
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Blyte Scrin <blyte_sc...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > "We get paid to code - let someone who gets paid half as much as us spend > their day testing code. "...." In Valve's case, the devs perform preliminary > testing and then they publish > it to the world to let us, the QA team aka customers test it :)" > > Do I understand you correctly. They get paid. > A show of hands for any server admins getting paid. Functioning as the QA > department. > > Think I missed his point ,if not, He needs a new job that pays more than > twice of nouthing. > > > > Blyte_Scrin > > > > P.S. sorry for sending from hotmail. > > > > > --Forwarded Message Attachment-- > From: ooksser...@zootal.com > To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com > Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:37:00 -0700 > Subject: Re: [hlds] Left 4 Dead Update Available > > > It's not so much that devs are not so good at testing their own code. I've > been writing code for 20 years, and I can test my code as well as the next > person can. It's that we don't have the time to spend 10 hours testing a code > change that only took us 20 minutes to make. I code it, I perform basic tests > to make sure I didn't do something stupid, and I send it to the QA department > to spend the next 10 hours testing the entire system to make sure I didn't > break anything. We get paid to code - let someone who gets paid half as much > as us spend their day testing code. It is a really stupid business practice > to rely on devs to test code changes. In Valve's case, the devs perform > preliminary testing and then they publish it to the world to let us, the QA > team aka customers test it :) > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Lauren found her dream laptop. Find the PC that’s right for you. > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/choosepc/?ocid=ftp_val_wl_290 > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
