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Monday, September 20, 2004
The goal of QA is to provide an ongoing induction of reality
Jim McCarthy on QA:
Jim McCarthy on QA:
"If QA feels its charter is to test the product that Development has created--or Development is convinced that its job is to create a product that QA then tests--some alarm bells should go off...
"QA's principal function--and it is a principal function--is to continually assess the state of the product so that the rest of the team's activities can be properly focused.
"QA's ongoing assessment is integral to the act of software creation, not an ex post facto event. Naturally, a good deal of testing and analysis is required to properly gauge status, but the goal of QA is to support the product development process by providing an ongoing induction of reality."
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