ace’s blog

I’m utterly disgusted by how my shop deploys software!  We (frequently) have a need to do a rush job on a project, be it an update or completely new functionality that a customer “needs…like yesterday”.

Short version of this bitchy-rant is every software shop needs QA!  If you don’t care to read the rest, thanks for reading so far.  Bye…

Now if your still here: WTF is wrong with this company that about 90% of the stuff that I do is a rush job?!?  When I worked at Terminix, about 1% of the stuff that was developed was put into a production environment the same day it was developed; at this company, that percentage jumps drastically to about 30%.   That is way too high.

No wonder we have so many bugs!  No wonder I’m becoming so good at SQL and data fix functions!  I’m a fucking data cleaning machine.

This is bullshit.  I’ve jumped up and down on the “we need QA people” soapbox so many times this week that it’s not even amusing anymore.  I’ve become the person in the office who talks about how things were done at their old company.

In short, I love and miss the Crystals/Mistys/Debbies/every other good QA person that I got so used to at Terminix.  You guys rock!

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Writing this post just made me write a ridiculously long email to our HR person asking for QA people.  I copied my manager and the owner of the company.