Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Scandalous Amazon Application

I looked at the reviews for this free Amazon Cloud Drive application from Amazon.  There's 63% that give it 1 star.  



I was surprised to see 19% gave this application 5 stars, but then you look at the actual reviews, you'll notice that many reviewers only have "ok", "good", "great" as the review.  Other 5-star reviews beyond one word had small phrases or sentences, such as "Great app!" or "Works as stated".  I wonder if the one of the engineers automated some fake users to give it a 5 star rating.

Given the lack of professionalism, and had some questions:
  • How can any product management or management, sign off on releasing such a broken application?
  • What are the software quality efforts at Amazon?  Do they exist?  
  • Were SQA engineers ignored by poor management, or was it some outsourcing the quality activities issue?
  • If the quality process is truly bad, do other Amazon products like AWS have bad quality as well

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