[specialist]

Dev needs QA/Test just like writers need editors.

I was a QA manager for a while. It's been over 10 years since I've worked somewhere that had any sense of QA/Test.

Now we have Horde, err, Scrum and DevOps. Proudly. It's like the industry just gave up.

I don't what it's like at the allegedly highest functioning teams (environments) Google, Facebook. But out here in the wild, it's madness.

Dan Luu has been best at capturing and articulating "contemporary standards" for what passes as "quality" in software development. http://danluu.com (I wish I was 1/2 as smart as Dan.)