We have a QA team but it’s small in comparison to the dev team. We didn’t have one before as we thought automated tests and “good developers” who take testing seriously was enough. Unfortunately, even with extreme automation and huge test suites, our bug count per release was unacceptable. Having a QA team was a big help in fixing that. We have two weeks of testing before a release goes out. But we sell a security product so for us bugs must be far between. If you just deploy web apps and you can update every hour, I guess you don’t need it as much.
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We have a QA team but it’s small in comparison to the dev team. We didn’t have one before as we thought automated tests and “good developers” who take testing seriously was enough. Unfortunately, even with extreme automation and huge test suites, our bug count per release was unacceptable. Having a QA team was a big help in fixing that. We have two weeks of testing before a release goes out. But we sell a security product so for us bugs must be far between. If you just deploy web apps and you can update every hour, I guess you don’t need it as much.