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From: rh@smds.UUCP (Richard Harter)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: separate SW testing newsgroup
Summary: machines test, people design tests
Message-ID: <278@smds.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 90 08:44:03 GMT
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Organization: SMDS Inc., Concord, MA
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In article <916@pdxgate.UUCP>, michaelo@jove.cs.pdx.edu (Mickael J. O'Hair) writes:
> 	...Over
> eight years in the industry has given me concrete evidence that the "design is
> creative and manufacture/testing/QA is drudge work" mentality still exists.

Well my humble view is that testing is drudge work.  That's why you have
machines do it.  People are supposed to design and implement the procedures
that let the machines do it.  Or as that noted authority on software
development (me) said:

	"Any procedure whose purpose is to improve software quality
	 which is not automated is a bug waiting to happen."
-- 
Richard Harter, Software Maintenance and Development Systems, Inc.
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