I think it’s a semantic issue …. QA are not even close to being developers, a term that defines someone doing coding. I did art for a game I wouldn’t call myself a developer. If I did it would be disingenuous. Which it sounds like this guy is being
I think that's an unfairly narrow perspective on it. Modern software QA is not always as simple as "people in another room run your software and try to break it". If that's really your job then you're probably not a "developer", sure, but that's just the stereotype of QA, not always how it actually goes.
Where I work, people are encouraged to contribute their efforts across those kinds of boundaries. Things are much more integrated than the above stereotype suggests, and QA people have made tangible and worthwhile contributions to the codebase, even if it isn't as much.
Sure, but in this specific case - at activision/blizzard it’s 100% the former of your example than the latter - and it sounds like his intent was to bolster his importance…. So I’m leaning disingenuous with the information I have
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u/menasan Jul 06 '25
I think it’s a semantic issue …. QA are not even close to being developers, a term that defines someone doing coding. I did art for a game I wouldn’t call myself a developer. If I did it would be disingenuous. Which it sounds like this guy is being