What does a QA team do?

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QA team? What QA team?

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I’ve read that developers of the game were least impacted, but then there was this controversy over if QA were developers. At the time QA and CS people were posting that they had been laid off. It was when Kotick was still here though.

Pretty sure Microsoft’s layoffs hit CS the hardest because there was a report that Microsoft was outsourcing them and getting rid of “redundancies.”

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That used to be the way to go. But these days products get released first and then quality assured after. When poor systems and such only get noticed a week or two in you can always downplay it call it a bug.

Just look on steam how many games are released in early access with big fanfare like it’s the official release already.

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Quesadilla Assurance

They order lunch from the local Mexican place.

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It’s us, we’re the QA team.

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Sombreros !!!

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They sit at home and apply for new jobs.

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Doing that from the office myself, solidarity

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Sad part we let them know what bugs are found in testing and unless its game breaking it goes to the back burner and forgotten. I would guess though some that are testing are looking for mechanics to exploit when it goes live to take advantage.

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I’m currently employed as a QA tester for a company that contracts with various other companies for their websites and mobile apps. I can tell you that our primary job is to identify issues and report them to the engineering team. Whether it gets fixed or not is up to the client’s Product and Engineering Managers to decide if the issue is a high enough priority to fix right away or is something that can be fixed later. What that looks like for Blizzard I couldn’t say, but for the clients I’ve worked with… sometimes only the absolutely app breaking and compromising issues get resolved as quickly as possible, where smaller annoyances get pushed out to a later date due to time constraints and deadlines.

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They fired the QA team as far as I know

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QA makes sure the game doesn’t have massive technical problems, such as crashes or broken elements

QA is not there to check if the game is “good” or complete

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There isnt a QA team anymore. When Microsoft took over they fired all of the QA team and now its just 2 guys in a basement. I wouldnt call that a Team. Needless to say they are probably overwhelmed.

This is how Microsoft operates

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Blizzard doesn’t have a competent QA team. Very few other companies would make it if they constantly released patches/games with the amount of bugs blizzard releases. Sad that they don’t care about this game anymore.

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yep, and immediately hotfixed as soon as it affects something big, like their precious RWF (not even hosted by Blizzard, btw) :roll_eyes:

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The PTR servers don’t have nearly the same population as the average server. And they definitely don’t have a few 100 or 1000 people sitting in the same place trying to do they same thing,

Not to mention most of the people on the PTR arent there to test and never bother filling out the bug reports.

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well… what do you do? You, me, we are ALL QA. lol

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Quality Assurance. However, it’s cheaper to have the player base QA your game for free.

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QA just reports all their findings.
It is the people above them that dictate if an issue is big enough to delay a release.

So in regards to the Arathi Nightfall Scenario, this busted event that sometimes works is not something that would delay a patch over, just something they will have to work on after launch.

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man… that would be great! I wish