Warlock and Mage 1.6 bugs

[KiloVictor]

As far as designers and coders go, more != better.  There is just a shortage of people who can do this job, and throwing monkeys at the problem will only make it worse.  I don't know about testing, it seems most of the bugs are being caught relativly early, it's just the fixes that are taking forever.
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Agreed that more != better. Somebody once observed that there is no late software project that cannot be made later by adding more programmers. :)

What blows me away on Blizzard's QA is the horrible amount of regression that they suffer with each patch. Things that used to be fixed get broken, or fixes break other parts of the game unintentionally. It's horrible.

The way that modern software shops tackle this is through automated regression testing. - they have automated testing software that runs against the production version of the software, asks it to perform a function and then checks the result of that function against some known good result. If it fails, you've broken something with a recent change, and it's a cue that you need to revisit your changes. If the test suite is kept up to date, you should never see a regression in your production software.

Blizzard is obviously not doing this or doing it only partially, and it really makes me wonder what this game will be like in another year's time. With every patch, it seems that the quality of the patch is going down and the number of bugs injected is going up. Every patch seems to be adding another turret to a castle built on on quicksand.

Kv