How's the testing culture in your team?

I have worked on 3 projects the past 1-1.5 yr and since all of them were in the initial stages, with rapidly updating designs, flows we didn't focus on making any testcases. How is it done at your place of work? Do you create testcases as you dev or once some features are done or not at all?

I am an Android developer with several years of experience in the industry. Unfortunately, I've noticed a concerning trend in the quality of software, particularly among apps from so-called unicorn startups and top multinational corporations. Many of these apps are riddled with bugs that seem to slip through the QA process. Here are some examples of reproducible issues I've encountered: 1. In Paytm, when navigating to train bookings and accessing the PNR section, attempting to copy the PNR may result in the screen freezing upon scrolling up, with a blank white screen appearing when scrolling down. 2. Within the train module on Paytm, if the application process is terminated, an infinite loader may appear, and returning to the previous screen may lead to a white screen. 3. PhonePe recently addressed a blank screen issue on the payments page when the process was terminated. 4. PhonePe also fixed an issue where an infinite loader appeared when checking UPI balance, especially after the process was terminated on the UPI pin screen and the back button was pressed. 5. YouTube experiences sporadic crashes when the application process is terminated while using YT Shorts. 6. Instagram had countless bug in the past. 7. Reddit backstack management and deeplinks are hell. 8. Hostar has no security. I was able to decompile and make a debug build with code changes with my novice reverse engineering skills. The room database is even not encrypted. It does seem like some companies are conducting testing just for the sake of it. How are the codebases structured for your company? Is it common for companies to produce spaghetti code? Do all companies rely on manual testers. TLDR; what does the codebase look like in your company? Are the tests adequately written, and to what extent?

Guys very curious, have you guys faced any challenges like once product writes off the deployment, founders coming after you for the bugs that comes in prod, because the testing is not done well. I feel it happens to me a lot of times but yeah im leveraging ai to help me test better. Do you guys use any ai in testing? Or do you guys face this problem??

I’m curious about the working style of difterent companies operating at different levels. Do engineers ever directly talk to business or just product? Does the product give a detailed PRD covering all possible scenarios or a one pager? Are PRDs still a thing ? How long does the review cycle last? How strictly are estimates adhered to? How frequently do the requirements change during the dev cycle? Who owns the quality of outcome ?

As title says

Hey guys, So i was asking questions to one engineer manager about quality analyst. I asked her how sdet as field in general as i already have 5 years of experience in QA field. Learning side by side coding for a next switch. She said do something else except QA as in her experience, her previous companies do not have QA team itself. So i am little confused as a career path. So wanted to ask how you guys software at your workplace and does sdet role will have significance in this market in future?

Hi all I am currently working as a business analyst for about 6 months now. Earlier was in a back end development team but was underperforming as could not really figure out what to do. I don’t like coding. The current role suits me but I don’t know if it has a good future. Current role - Analyse old product (old code) (understand the complete functionality) Suggest enhancements if asked for by the client. Give demos to on-site people/developers Test the modernised version of the product (started very recently. Called “functional testing”) Can I switch to a different company with a good jump in pay in future? I feel like the work I do is not really considered worthy and hence there is no growth in this field. Please suggest how to move forward. Would like to work for another year or two and then go for an MBA abroad.

The job market has dried up for senior product roles. Do you think the situation will improve soon? What's your overall outlook of product management as a career beyond 10 years? Do you see yourself doing this for another decade? Asking mostly from a supply and demand point of view. Also, has seen that the role is becoming more and more vague and replaceable. Context: Leading a 6 membered product team in a series B funded company. Managing the ceo/cpo opinion differences, moving to wfo from remote, high work pressure and too much reporting. I have been working with series A, series B companies throughout my career.

I'm curious to learn if we can build a proper product using iterative development that uses the power of blockchain ( as a distributed ledger) instead of crypto bullshit. If you have practical experience, can you please share some references that can help me get started ? In particular, I have some apprehensions around how do you do bugfixes/hotfixes once you have shipped the code. That is the cornerstone of modern agile product building, but according to my understanding it'snot easy to achieve. If you have any references that can help me understand this in detail, please share.

The current startup tech employees and founders are filled with so much junkies who do not care about the product at all. The culture is set when the startup is founded,when the first set of employees arrive. These folks are some of the most driven and talented and that's fine, it's how it should be. But the problem begins when these folks do not find their own hiring strategy and copy the hiring strategy of other companies. Instead of analysing what works best for them they justify their hiring means by saying this is what other have done. The result is you get a bunch of leetcode warriors who are always wanting to jump ships when given opportunity, never forming deep knowledge about their industry and their product. I work in one of the legacy tech companies, sure we do not hire the best people but we nurture them and that earns loyalty and long careers in our company. Even the employees have a very 360 degree view wrt product. We always deeply care about our product. Tbh I love seeing the stupidity of the market and it makes me happy that more confident that these people are wrong and always will be. Even the Indian startups are unoriginal and copied from the west then how do you expect the hiring to be unique. We are all living in the circus where jokers are supporting each other in making the circus bigger.