Yeah, this is the only thing that practically worked, in a complex product I used to work on.
- If you ask the devs to do QA, you'll get no bugs other than the ones they already caught during testing and deployment.
- If you have a mostly independent QA team, they will find somewhat silly/trivial bugs like the login page not working in an extreme edge case scenario.
- However, when you ask your Product team to own QA, you get the real good stuff - "Why does this feature not actually work well with this other feature when you combine the configuration" etc. It's great!
- If you ask the devs to do QA, you'll get no bugs other than the ones they already caught during testing and deployment.
- If you have a mostly independent QA team, they will find somewhat silly/trivial bugs like the login page not working in an extreme edge case scenario.
- However, when you ask your Product team to own QA, you get the real good stuff - "Why does this feature not actually work well with this other feature when you combine the configuration" etc. It's great!