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Subject:We are not alone? From:jlshaeffer -at- aol -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:39:13 -0400
A new article at stickyminds.com (details below) talks about 5 myths regarding QA. Replace QA with Technical Documentation and the myths become eerily familiar.
Myth #1: Anybody can do QA
Myth #2: Any out of school kid can test our applications
Myth #3: A QA Engineer is a âDeveloper wannabeâ
Myth #4: QA doesnât provide much value to the organization
Myth #5: QA is a boring, repetitive job with no creativeness involved
In fact, made a text copy of the article, replaced "QA" with "Tech Doc" and replaced "test" with "document". The result looked really familiar.
Jim Shaeffer
Note: you may need to register to see the article.
Marina Gil-Santamaria
Have you ever heard someone say, "Anybody can do QA" or "A QA
engineer is really a wannabe developer"? If you have, you should
read on. This article exposes the top five QA myths, reason why
the... http://www.stickyminds.com/r.asp?F=DART_12617
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