cory barlog  🖖Verified account

Which movie is this?

If there weren't testers to test the game during development a finished game would never come out. Hence, they helped make the game.

Helping making a game doesn't make you a developer. A development team consists of different roles. QA is one of them. Just like the developer and designer/analyst. Sometimes even a project manager. Each has different qualities, contributing to the final result.

I get that thinking though. When I worked QA I never considered myself to be a dev of any sort. It wasn’t until I began managing builds and deployments that understood how true your statement is.

it's always people that worked like 6 months in some remote publisher QA hellhole that tell people "testing is not developing". when you have a decade in dev testing, have done build engineering, test automation, developed/implemented processes, that's when you know what QA is.