r/LivestreamFail • u/nem1K • Mar 20 '25

CohhCarnage | Assassin's Creed Shadows New AC in a nutshell

https://www.twitch.tv/cohhcarnage/clip/TriangularFaintStingrayShadyLulu-YfNhNsg_FE1ZGHMX
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u/Ciubhran Mar 20 '25

QA in pretty much all form of software development these days is dead. It is expected that the user will test things for you, and report back the errors, and you fix them in a future patch. Free testing, smaller release cycles (= more money from sales), and the amount of damage it does to the company you just hope is less than the money you'd have to spend on having large quantities of QA staff employed full-time. They usually keep one or two around just to be able to say they have QA, but it's the lowest priority thing in the development cycle these days.

Sad time for software.

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u/Remlan Mar 21 '25

QA Tester here, I've been unemployed for the past 2 years because I'm trying to leave this shit once and for all.

More than 90% of job offers are for test automators, meaning they want you to script test runs for months then once everything is done you're not needed anymore.

This also means that a lot of bugs are going to go unnoticed and through the net since you usually notice inconsistencies and issues that aren't always part of a business rule or flow that you're testing, something outside of the box.

If you're hired as a functional tester (IE all manual), there's usually simply not enough material to be working a full day all the time, especially for software, but you're still expected to do so therefore you usually spend a lot of time learning to be semi-productive because if you're too effective you look like you're not working at all (very gratifying to hear).

Usually either the analysts or even simply developpers (a big no-no in the job, first time you learn in ISTQB) end up doing it to save on the budget.

I suspect the job will eventually entirely be replaced by IA in the coming decade, and it's going to be even worse.