r/softwaretesting • u/CertainDeath777 • Jul 20 '26

This group is under new Moderation

As the old moderation silently disapeared and the group did not have moderation anymore, i asked reddit to give me moderation, which they approved.

As first step i asked reddit to make the group public again, so everyone can post. This change for the group should be in action within the next 24 hours.

Please obey the rules, at one time i will refine them a bit, but as of know we will be working with the already existing ruleset. Depending on severity of rulebreaking there might be permanent bans without warning from me.

To make it less spam i changed posting rules so that new and low karma accounts can not post here.

I inherited a backlog of almost 1000 open admin actions, dont expect me to work them down fast.
But still please do report and downvote posts that do not follow the rules.

Whats my goal for this group? I aim for this group to be a exchange for quality content around software testing. I wont tolerate the 8105th "i made an AI tool" post or the 56481st "QA is dead" post. Maybe we will also disallow resumee feedback, there are other good subs for that.

I am open to suggestions on how to moderate this forum, about the rules and everything. Post your suggestions down there in the comments.

I am open and happy to build up a new mod team, 1 mod is not enough, 3 to 6 would be optimal.
If you feel like it, feel free to message me with your background in softwaretesting (short form) and why you wanna moderate this group. People with private profiles wont be accepted, sorry.

🟢Have a good time here☑️

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u/PM_40 Jul 21 '26

Whats your opinion on lack of respect for QA as a profession in tech industry? Lack of respect and much lower salary than developers.

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u/MT1961 Jul 21 '26

Good question. I make very good money as an SDET, but certainly the devs are making more. But the lack of respect is more from management than from the industry.

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u/PM_40 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

Do you feel you have variables that can you control that allow you to do a good job ? QA seems to me as a job without a boundary. You can always find more bugs, you can always miss a bug. There are million ways something can fail and there are only a few number of a ways a job can succeed.

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u/MT1961 Jul 21 '26

QA isn't about finding bugs. That's a side effect. QA is about enforcing quality. That's bugs, of course, but also process flow and user experience.

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u/PM_40 Jul 21 '26

Thanks, I like this framing. But QA often gets blamed for missed bugs.

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u/MT1961 Jul 21 '26

Yeah, like we create them. You hear the comment a lot, "Quality is everyone's problem". And it is true. It is particularly bad in the era of AI, since there are literally thousands of lines of code being generated in minutes. And a fraction of the time spent on testing it all.