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No More QA: Yahoo's Tech Leaders Say Engineers Are Better Off Coding With No Net (ieee.org)
Tekla Perry writes: A year ago Yahoo eliminated its test and quality assurance team, as part of project Warp Drive, its move to continuous delivery of code. The shift wasn't easy, Yahoo tech execs say, and required some "tough parenting." But the result has been fewer errors because "when you have humans everywhere, checking this, checking that, they add so much human error into the chain that, when you take them out, even if you fail sometimes, overall you are doing better." And the pain wasn't as great as expected. Yahoo's chief architect and SVP of science and technology discuss the transition.
Hilariously full of idiot speak:
"We forced excellence into the process"
"caused a paradigm shift in how engineers thought about problems"
"even if you fail sometimes, overall you are doing better"
//TODO: Insert catchy phrase
A year ago Yahoo eliminated its test and quality assurance team
Several years ago Yahoo eliminated it's customer base. That had a larger impact on their net worth than QA.