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GeneralRe: Another Visual Studio Update, Another Level of Ineptitude. Pin
Rick York9-Aug-23 5:37
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Rick York24-Aug-23 11:10
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Mike Hankey26-Aug-23 4:36
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Mike Hankey29-Aug-23 6:01
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MarkTJohnson30-Aug-23 2:40
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Mike Hankey wrote:
WTF, is there no QA anymore?

Almost as bad, inept QA.
Our esteemed QA department (what I call our one guy) closed a Jira that wasn't even yet in his queue. I had to call him out in Standup yesterday. I asked him how he tested the change, in all 5 different applications it went in, when I intentionally had NOT moved the code into the branch that builds the QA environment. "I just saw it was related to the one application as the other stories I was testing and moved it over."

Later I went back and checked the story and sure enough in my description was what he SHOULD have seen if the code had been migrated over. Since it wasn't, the message wouldn't have appeared and he should have Failed the story. I now know he didn't even READ the story before passing it. This is not the first time he has done this.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.

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GeneralPossibly the hottest mess I've seen in some time Pin
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GeneralI question Microsoft's documentation Pin
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Gary R. Wheeler28-Apr-23 11:45
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GeneralGDMA on the ESP32S3 Pin
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