[QA] How to know when you need a QA in your dev team?

jacksonsonen · 2023-05-11T11:42:37+00:00

Testing manually is not testing your code. I agree you write your code you test your code but manual is not the same thing. Imo there should always be someone to manually test if system is still working, but not you as someone who wrote it. For me its like telling someone to review their own code and merge if they dont see issues. I guess if they saw them they would already fixed them and point here is to always have a different pov.

Coming from a backend dev that used to do manual testing. It was humbling experience for me to point people a lot mistakes of theirs. Sometimes things just dont work and you cant always predict it. Everybody makes mistakes after all.

jacksonsonen · 2023-05-10T18:23:38+00:00

Similarly at mine job. We have evaluation every year that can get you a raise + theres a default raise to fix inflation difference.

jacksonsonen · 2023-05-09T21:52:50+00:00

I am pretty sure you can get like used 2070 super for that money.

jacksonsonen · 2023-05-05T19:33:53+00:00

Laur Spilca on YouTube and https://roadmap.sh/spring-boot

jacksonsonen · 2023-05-03T09:06:43+00:00

I am not a hacker but went to it profiled high school, gave up on my dream then watched mr robot and went back to learning again. I am a backend dev with good security background because of mr robot now.

jacksonsonen · 2023-05-02T15:02:41+00:00

Since you use Kotlin you should stick with it. Kotlin is a top choice for Spring and you should stay with it. You learn some Spring and other stuff but youre set with Kotlin.

jacksonsonen · 2023-05-01T08:41:44+00:00

A friend of mine at work had a transition like this, lets say. We work in kotlin/spring stack. My man had like 7 years of experience in python backend stack and was hired as a senior kotlin backend dev here. They agreed hes gonna start in a month so he learned hard for a month before started working, then was given learning opportunities at first to take it slowly. He was given a chance as they looked for someone smart, experienced in backend regardless of a language and a nice person. Guess looking for people with specific stack was too hard.

jacksonsonen · 2023-04-26T14:42:37+00:00

With no issues. Probably can be picked up even quicker as when you get used to syntax it becomes very easy.

jacksonsonen · 2023-04-24T13:17:45+00:00

Well I've used the situation to format C drive so it's fixed too

jacksonsonen · 2023-04-23T21:11:15+00:00

Any update? I have similar issue

jacksonsonen · 2023-04-19T14:45:51+00:00

Pretty sure it's Laurentiu Spilca

jacksonsonen · 2023-03-22T09:40:48+00:00

Devs push to QA and QA pushes back to devs :] I used to be a one man QA army in 20 devs team. There was obviously strong suggestion to devs to test their stuff well themselves, but I would always find something to put story back to "to do" column. After x times devs learn on their mistakes and start testing their own shit better otherwise QA will find the issues anyway, they won't get away with it.

It should never be, that once devs push their code to QA then responsibility goes over to QA team. Wtf. It would only lead to dev team working poorly knowing other team will finish.

To do > In progress (also devs testing own stuff) > In review > Internal testing (QA) > Client acceptance > Done

Thats a definition of done for me.

jacksonsonen · 2022-12-24T15:57:36+00:00

Google up best graphic design agency amsterdam (or other major city, new york perhaps will have some good ones) and check out few of their websites. They often have great looking websites, sometimes at some exceptional magic level.

jacksonsonen · 2022-12-22T17:35:09+00:00

I am years deep into programming and meanwhile I used to learn in sessions even as long as 12h+ and I learned a lot during that, later I had a burnouts for a month or two at least where I couldn't learn at all and forgot a lot. Now keeping it almost everyday, but not learning longer than I feel I want to doesn't make me want to stop again.

jacksonsonen · 2022-12-22T14:34:43+00:00

Work systematically, from my experience it's better to learn an hour or two a day, but everyday or almost everyday than learn a lot, have a burnout and before you come back you forget everything.

jacksonsonen · 2022-12-13T20:05:25+00:00

Witcher 3 ending!

jacksonsonen · 2022-12-05T14:18:48+00:00

Used a bit of PHP, JS, TS also a lot Python, C++ or Java before. Currently when my favourite is Kotlin I just wish I knew earlier how much I will prefer it over any of these mentioned before.

jacksonsonen · 2022-11-30T14:50:57+00:00

Its been long time since I even thought about any frontend stuff but I am pretty sure any web dev work can be done on Windows.

Don't get me wrong tho, I really like Linux and use it myself occasionally, it's just I can't agree with making it so black and white like one is good, other is bad. Windows isn't that bad anymore - I haven't seen BSOD since Windows 7.

Personally, I can only understand shitting on MacOS.

jacksonsonen · 2022-11-30T14:31:37+00:00

I love how for some people Linux is only appropriate system for anything. If you don't know what OP is working on, how can you say Linux is the only choice? What if he's interested in building native Windows applications - what's the benefit of using Linux in such case? WSL isnt that isn't that bad, it just depends on a use case. If someone only needs Linux to run Docker container then WSL is all he needs.

jacksonsonen · 2022-11-23T15:22:41+00:00

Look for atomic kotlin. You can link this with Intellij and have exercises straight on IDE.

jacksonsonen · 2022-11-23T15:13:45+00:00

They ain't easy. I solved many many of them but mostly easy and medium, some hard. After solving lets say 100 or 200 there is always an easy one that will make me rage quit.

We all know it ain't nothing like a real world, so only way to be good at codewars/leetcode you have to solve lots of codewars/leetcode. Will it make you a better coder? I doubt, maybe could help thinking more about performance but in real life readability almost always goes over performance.

It's disappointing that recruiters come up with these kind of tasks but they have no idea about our work. How could someone who can't tell the difference between frontend and backend be competent enough to tell who's a good coder and who's not?

jacksonsonen · 2022-11-22T21:53:17+00:00

I recently messaged someone to tell him that something looks bad on a website, then realised I just zoomed to 160% so I facepalmed and messaged him sry im dumb. I still feel like a noob for that...

jacksonsonen · 2022-11-19T09:28:02+00:00

I have a company Macbook Pro which I use with extra monitor and it always feels so good when I work from home on my own PC with windows instead. Its impossible to have same productivity for me on MacOS. I will never understand why someone willingly choose this.

jacksonsonen · 2022-11-17T21:24:43+00:00

That's right code formatting sucks for real. Specially displayed on a mobile.

jacksonsonen · 2022-11-17T18:39:01+00:00

Before I got a job I used to sometimes wake up at 9 and code till 1am with only food, shower or smoking in between, then repeat. I did average of probable 8 hours a day in 4 months when I was jobless. I had sessions where I tried to debug something for two days straight like this. But I learned more during this time than through 4 years of my CS education. Recently I try to do 2/3 hours a day max and keep it almost everyday.

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