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From: jeremy@epochsys.UUCP (Jeremy L. Mordkoff)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: separate SW testing newsgroup
Message-ID: <910@epochsys.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 90 15:35:51 GMT
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Reply-To: jeremy@epochsys.UUCP (Jeremy L. Mordkoff)
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I'm fairly new to the network, so just ignore me if I'm way off base.

It seems to me that the only reason to spawn a new newsgroup would be
if there were a number (majority?) of people who would read one and not
the other. From what I read, everyone who would read comp.software-test
would also read comp.softare-eng, and I suspect that the opposite is
also true. So why don't we (the SQA guys) just wait for the eng guys to
start complaining about our using up 'their' bandwidth...

Secondly, as a career SQA engineer, I wonder about the motives for
splitting off SQA from eng (read development). The literature is clear
in its assertion that a sucessful SW shop must integrate these two
functions. I have spent a lot of effort trying to get development to
let SQA in on its process, and to split the newsgroups apart would seem
to be a step in favor of the old school.

And as a third thought, if we do split this group, we will also have to
change its name. You will never convince me that software-eng does not
include SQA. So we will have to change it to software-dev and add
software-qa. While were at it, how about software-support,
software-manufacturing, and software-maintainence...

Jeremy
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