Kent Beck is interesting on the change in culture from the old days,
where programmers wrote code and the quality assessment people tested
it, to the current practice, where the programmer takes responsibility
for the quality of their own code:
The only piece of Facebook swag that I have in my office is a big poster that says "Nothing at Facebook is someone else's problem", and the remarkable thing about Facebook as an engineering organization is the degree to which 7000 people all actually agree on that, and I have never seen an organization this big, take this much responsibility. Getting rid of QA, and Facebook until very recently had no QA at all beyond programmers, in the traditional sense, now we have some people working on the mobile apps, but it's very, programmers take responsibility, and it works OK. It's a question of compared to what. If you said, well if you had a really healthy relationship, if as a programmer you still took responsibility, but somebody else was helping you be even higher quality, wouldn't that be better, sure, if that's what you are going to compare it to, then absolutely, but, the transition, back in the dark ages, wasn't from a healthy relationship, it was from this very dysfunctional, aresponsibile attitude, throw it over the wall, long long cycles, vague feedback. Going from that, to programmers accepting responsibility for the quality of their work, that was a huge step forward.
https://youtu.be/YNw4baDz6WA?t=1022
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