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Mike makes his case for realism when it comes to automated testing, and a readjustment of expectations in the wider community.

Plus the guys define what makes a \\u201cDark Matter Developer\\u201d, and gauk at the possibility of this young hip upstart\\u2019s automated build pipeline, and share memories of large scale QA testing teams.

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• The Day the QA Department Died — Let\\u2019s take a step back and examine how things used to work.
• Who needs a separate QA Team? — Have you come across developers who think that having a separate Quality Assurance (QA) team, who could test (manually or auto-magically) their code/software at the end of an iteration/release, will really help them? Personally I think this style of software development is not just dangerous but also harmful to the developers\\u2019 growth.
• Why your QA testers quit\\u2014and what to do about it — After years of hearing tragic tales of continuous tester turnover, I started to wonder if testing is just a temporary, transitional role for many people.
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• Big Mouth Billy Bass will soon work with Amazon Alexa - The Verge — Amazon says an updated Billy is coming later this year.