Originally by: John'eh

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What I am saying is that CPP is lying to us, and would not have even admitted this much without third parties stepping in. They want to protect themselves, and the devs want to protect each other, and will do so at the expense of anything we have because they dont have anybody inside CPP watching them or otherwise holding them accountable.

The fact is, they are lying to us about there even being a dedicated QA Team; Official Software Test Engineers and Software Development Engineers in Test for Eve dont exist. This is why we have never seen anybody with that title at the cons, etc and it has always been about the devs. This fact makes me feel better because if they really did exist, they would all be worthless incompetents who have no actual software testing background or skill, and I say that as a professional Game Developer, Programmers, and Game QA Guy who has done Software Testing and Development (And Development For Test) for over a decade. The fact is they are lazy, don't do any real testing, and expect us to use Sis to to find the bugs for them, because the software methodology they use to develop Eve (Agile/Scrum/Etc) is NOT friendly to Testing/Quality Assurance/Making sure Devs are not cheating.

Except of course for the ones they add themselves, the "features" the devs add without telling others so that there alliances and friends will have an advantage and then clsim are bugs when outside sources rub there noses in it and they don't have the power to delete it. The fact is, things like this never would have happened if a quality assurance team existed and had the power they should have to be the checks and balances and keep the deveopers accountable; I know this from over a decade of working in the industry, and my own experience says that many of the things we are being told now is a flat out lie, but unfortunately most of the people told to repeat them - marketing people, public relations, etc - dont know they are being lied to so they really do believe what they are repeating.

I DEMAND that a QA/Test role that IS NOT OUTSOURCED TO IGNORANT BUTTON PUSHERS WHO CAN NOT AUDIT CODE be immediately created at CCP, and is staffed by somebody with testing chops that will not bend over for dev, will file bugs and drive issue, hold dev accountable, and police cheats like this from even being entered into the code base. They must have the hjob description and authority to not be scared into letting the devs do stuff like this, and all devs should be immediately have there code audited by this newly created team , and fired if something is found by this team that can be considered intentional.

In Short:
I want software developers to be hired to Software Quality Assurance positions with the sole role, goal and intention of finding, hunting, auditing, and if needed terminating (and podding) of any dev who cheats by either adding code like this, or attempting to do so.

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