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Sure. That's why QA doesn't care why a dev starts whining - they will simply not sign off until shit is fixed.

Nah I trust my QA team. I'll admit this is totally variable based on your company though. My husband's QA team is an incompetent nightmare who needs to be stepped through every little thing, every single time. Ours is a fucking godsend who makes our lives easier and less stressful because there are fewer post-launch bugs. I think it has a lot to do with whether your QA team can program and read code and understand how the system works. There's a huge difference between a skilled QA team adding automated whitebox testing vs some min wage people doing manual blackbox testing every time.

Do you want to be Bethesda? Because that's how you become Bethesda.