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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7927986" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>A website isn't the same as a software application. As a software developer, I'm sure you know this. This new code completely broke existing functionality to the monster databases. This is something that would have easily been found in regression testing. You're comparing apples to oranges. This isn't a load testing issue, or something that wouldn't have been able to be tested due to environmental limitations (which do exist).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not sure how many times I need to repeat this, but they aren't following <em>any </em>established QA methodology. This isn't about maintaining the standard of a financial institution. This is about following any of the industry standards of testing, which <em>are </em>essentially a one true way of how to run QA because regardless of if they use Agile, or waterfall, or whatever, the basic methodology for testing is the same*. And they clearly aren't following it. So good news! Since there is a one true way of doing this, then I guess that means you're annoyed now?</p><p></p><p></p><p>* Requirements design > prototype build > internal QA testing (AKA alpha) > pilot testing (AKA beta) > full prod deploy <em>(edit* many times it's more complex than this with extra steps (like two steps of internal testing like QA and UAT), but this is the general gist).</em></p><p></p><p>What they did was inadequate (if any) regression testing to miss this issue, deployed alpha code to the public (which isn't what alpha testing is) and had it broke something they are still calling beta when that's not what beta is (beta testing only lasts a few weeks). So I'd be curious to know what their process is, since clearly they aren't following the universal standard of QA testing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 7927986, member: 15700"] A website isn't the same as a software application. As a software developer, I'm sure you know this. This new code completely broke existing functionality to the monster databases. This is something that would have easily been found in regression testing. You're comparing apples to oranges. This isn't a load testing issue, or something that wouldn't have been able to be tested due to environmental limitations (which do exist). Not sure how many times I need to repeat this, but they aren't following [I]any [/I]established QA methodology. This isn't about maintaining the standard of a financial institution. This is about following any of the industry standards of testing, which [I]are [/I]essentially a one true way of how to run QA because regardless of if they use Agile, or waterfall, or whatever, the basic methodology for testing is the same*. And they clearly aren't following it. So good news! Since there is a one true way of doing this, then I guess that means you're annoyed now? * Requirements design > prototype build > internal QA testing (AKA alpha) > pilot testing (AKA beta) > full prod deploy [I](edit* many times it's more complex than this with extra steps (like two steps of internal testing like QA and UAT), but this is the general gist).[/I] What they did was inadequate (if any) regression testing to miss this issue, deployed alpha code to the public (which isn't what alpha testing is) and had it broke something they are still calling beta when that's not what beta is (beta testing only lasts a few weeks). So I'd be curious to know what their process is, since clearly they aren't following the universal standard of QA testing. [/QUOTE]
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