bugs

[Dan Shafer]

I'm reminded of this quotation from the 1970's. (I think it was in the
Mythical Man Month but I'm not sure.)

"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the
first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."


On 4/7/06, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:
>
> David-
>
> Friday, April 7, 2006, 3:26:29 AM, you wrote:
>
> > Approach 2, results in much better software and much happier
> > engineers. The idea is to have QA involved right from the start, at
> > the design stage. QA's job here is to ensure that components (such as
> > libraries etc.) are unit tested as they are written.
>
> 100% agreement on approach 1 vs 2. It really is true that the best way
> to eliminate bugs is not to code them in the first place. I always
> like to get QA involved at product inception and follow the sdlc
> through to the release.
>
> But... it shouldn't be QA's job to do unit testing. That's
> development's job. The tests written by QA should complement the unit
> tests in terms of integration testing, functional and boundary tests,
> etc. Otherwise you get QA locked into the same mindset as development
> to where you know what the program is supposed to do, so you don't
> test other scenarios. It's the same reason you can't do proper QA on a
> product you've written yourself. I've had my own apps pass all the
> unit tests I've written and come through with flying colors, only to
> be shot down in five minutes when I handed the "finished" product off
> to someone else.
>
> --
> -Mark Wieder
> mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>
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