Re: no QA

[Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

I agree, which is one reason I favor it being done
over the life of the software development project, by
people internal to the effort. Waiting for it to be
mostly complete and only then passing it to QA can
produce a bureaucratic disaster.

--- JLShaeffer -at- aol -dot- com wrote:

>  
> Such rigorous testing in all conceivable
> environments can quickly create a  
> testing effort that is more complex and costly than
> the software development  
> effort that spawned it. So, there is a tendency on
> the part of rational 
> managers  to say "Enough! Ship the product!"
>  
> Jim Shaeffer
>  
> In a message dated 4/10/2007 9:26:22 AM Eastern
> Daylight Time,  
> athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com writes <in part>:
> 
> My only  gripe with QA is that generally it isn't
> rigorous enough. At this point,  even relatively
> simple
> software or hardware is going to be interacting 
> with
> so much stuff - OS, peripherals, other software -
> that
> not testing  it would be suicidal in my view. The QA
> can be informal.  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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