Our ratio is supposed to be 1 engineer :: 3 QA, though upper management’s cheap bastards so it’s been around 1::2 since they won’t give us reqs. Those guys have saved us from serious pain a few times by spotting things that we were blind to or thinking up ways to exercise things we hadn’t considered, and quality assurance really helps with, you know, quality.
The “move fast and break things” ideal moves fast in a race to the bottom.
I might be mis-remembering our ideal ratios but when I left IE in 2006, there were 87 QA (give or take four or so) and 125 or so developers.
The freenode #boingboing IRC that is
I absolutely hate this trend toward all automation, and data driven only testing. Sure, your shit all passed, but it still sucks. Telemetry is not the answer.
There’s something to be said for having a skilled test engineer going wild on your product or feature. So many stupid and great bugs are found this way.
The test discipline is all but dead at most places and it really shows.
freenode?
Man, there’s a backwater!
I didn’t even know that boingboing had a channel.
Which is why 8 of us have been idling there for a decade now
Ikh bin tsumisht, 8 years isn’t a decade.
Words… Read them in order
b-but y-you said: [quote=“Israel_B, post:87, topic:76508”]
idling there for a decade now
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The IRC has only been around for like 8 years, not a decade… right? I mean, that’s what I thought.
The #boingboing IRC channel was around before that post though.
the serious regulars : )
No, the “serious” regulars are using packet radio.
You kids with your new-fangled technologies!
Not RFC1149?! (<- comment can be reused for both the question and the yelling thread)
Get real, man - we’re not Luddites!
hey! it was implemented at least once
vegard@gyversalen:~$ /sbin/ifconfig tun0
tun0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:10.0.3.2 P-t-P:10.0.3.1 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:150 Metric:1
RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
RX bytes:88 (88.0 b) TX bytes:168 (168.0 b)
vegard@gyversalen:~$ ping -i 900 10.0.3.1
PING 10.0.3.1 (10.0.3.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=6165731.1 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=3211900.8 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=5124922.8 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=6388671.9 ms
--- 10.0.3.1 ping statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 55% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 3211900.8/5222806.6/6388671.9 ms
vegard@gyversalen:~$ exit
I apologize, that wasn’t my intent.
I hope you can take your next 9,999 replies to another topic for the time being, and continue as per usual?
All your “disposable” communications are still there last time I checked. I’m not really clear what the big disruption is, other than now having two ginormous topics instead of one extra-super-mega-ginormous topic.
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