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<blockquote data-quote="Gorgias32" data-source="post: 278223" data-attributes="member: 5914"><p>Farsight is definitely a small company, and it shows. And they have never had a focus on doing formal software QA - they could have invested in QA automation years ago and had automated checks for changes that break old tables; it sure looks to me (as a professional software engineer) like they are asking the developers to do their own QA, which is a recipe for the exact types of bugs we see getting released again and again.</p><p></p><p>It would be difficult to quantify how much more profit they would have made on TPA if they had invested in formal QA, though - if additional revenues would cover the additional costs, which with based on the architecture of their platform could be substantial. Farsight's management has all the numbers and I trust that they have looked at them decided that the ongoing QC issues are acceptable from a financial standpoint. It's frustrating for us, but it's a business decision that is theirs to make. The cost is that it has certainly driven some folks away in the past, and discouraged new adopters who may have downloaded the demo and had it be/feel flaky due to the state of the app at that given point in time.</p><p></p><p>But I am planning stick with TPA, because at the end of the day, once you get into a table, and when it's working well (which is most of the time), it's a fantastic experience that keeps me coming back on a daily basis. And their potential access to new Sterns is really something I am looking forward to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gorgias32, post: 278223, member: 5914"] Farsight is definitely a small company, and it shows. And they have never had a focus on doing formal software QA - they could have invested in QA automation years ago and had automated checks for changes that break old tables; it sure looks to me (as a professional software engineer) like they are asking the developers to do their own QA, which is a recipe for the exact types of bugs we see getting released again and again. It would be difficult to quantify how much more profit they would have made on TPA if they had invested in formal QA, though - if additional revenues would cover the additional costs, which with based on the architecture of their platform could be substantial. Farsight's management has all the numbers and I trust that they have looked at them decided that the ongoing QC issues are acceptable from a financial standpoint. It's frustrating for us, but it's a business decision that is theirs to make. The cost is that it has certainly driven some folks away in the past, and discouraged new adopters who may have downloaded the demo and had it be/feel flaky due to the state of the app at that given point in time. But I am planning stick with TPA, because at the end of the day, once you get into a table, and when it's working well (which is most of the time), it's a fantastic experience that keeps me coming back on a daily basis. And their potential access to new Sterns is really something I am looking forward to. [/QUOTE]
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