TLDR Web Dev · OPINIONS & ADVICE

MAYBE GETTING RID OF YOUR QA TEAM WAS BAD, ACTUALLY.

davidkcaudill.medium.com6 min read

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

DevOps initially focused on optimizing delivery pipelines and processes, but the bottleneck in software delivery shifted to testing. This led to a series of actions that devalued and eventually dismantled the role of QA engineers, resulting in low-quality software. However, quality assurance work which includes defect tracking, bug triage, defect investigation, and end-to-end testing, which all end up being long-term obstacles to sustainable software development.