“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.” The above quote is attributed to various people. We want to apply it to Software Quality Assurance.
Quality Assurance is one of the areas where people (not in QA) feel that resources or funding are wasted since they see no immediate benefit. Avoiding the process improvement and incremental changes are simply piling up technical and resource debt for the future. Bad processes do not fix themselves and usually get worse over time. The cumulative debt increases until it is unmanageable.
Every problem avoided is one less to fix. When creating or improving processes and applying them to any particular situation, it is necessary to measure the improvement by taking a baseline and checking for improvement or degradation. The effort invested in measurement will pay back with further improvements.
Software Testing solves problems for yesterday and today.
Quality Assurance solves your problems coming tomorrow!
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