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[โ€“] [email protected] 172 points 1 week ago (64 children)

There is no financial motive for software to work well. The people who sign the check for it almost never have to use it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (12 children)

Depends on business model. Saas - quality is very important. Non-profit insurance/bureaucratic type - they'll burn millions to hire plenty of QA then treat them like shit, ignore them, and push trash software all day

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (11 children)

Quality is meaningless in SaaS. Only features matter.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah no. Performance, reliability, uptime are huge.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Uptime isn't quality. Perf and reliability are easily faked with the right metrics. It's trival to be considered working on PowerPoint without working well for the user.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Uptime is quality. It's why uptime is in SLAs. A quality product isn't down half the time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Opinions like that are why software quality sucks. And why using software is so painful for most people. "I have to use a stroller to set my phone number on the UI." "Sure, but uptime if 5 9's, so it's quality software".

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Lol, saying uptime is needed for quality of why software quality sucks? What? Uptime is part of quality, it is not the sole determination of quality. You seem to be purposefully misunderstanding that concept.

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