2010-09-24, 12:27 AM
rayhovite Wrote:Our QA team doesn’t mind when we patch the game three times a day, or when we have to bring the servers down unexpectedly so we can make a change.
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What? That much is absolutely true when talking about professional QA (IE Paid, not necessarily good). Heck, save for the two weeks of final, I loved those kinds of days. Getting paid while chillin and waiting for the servers to be updated/revs to be burned onto disks for everyone a la test kit format. Sometimes where I worked we ended up being told to go home after 4 hours waiting for the update to arrive (All paid time). I suppose there is the downside when you're trying to get a test case done and you keep having new versions come out and having to start from scratch over and over and OVER again, but hey, that's the job in a nutshell anyway.
Anyway, yeah, I suppose this explanation would help those who know nothing about the process get a better idea, but it isn't really anything special. It's an expectation. If they have such problems, hit up the local temp agency and get some more monkeys on site. Or of course play the wild card of public testing.
EDIT: Ninja'd to hell.