Comments on: I hope the software works http://gregmoreno.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/i-hope-the-software-works/ think BIG, act small Tue, 08 May 2012 20:33:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ynah http://gregmoreno.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/i-hope-the-software-works/#comment-313 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:32:36 +0000 http://www.microisv.com.ph/blog/i-hope-the-software-works.html#comment-313 I am a software tester and looking for a software tester certification, and ofcors the training that goes with it, that i can take here in the Philippines which will be recognized internationally….

If anybody knows anything about any certification that i can get please email me at ynahhany@gmail.com. I would really appreciate it..Thank you

]]> By: Ben Simo http://gregmoreno.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/i-hope-the-software-works/#comment-312 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:36:50 +0000 http://www.microisv.com.ph/blog/i-hope-the-software-works.html#comment-312 @Greg

I think you nailed it. Bad software is rarely the fault of individual programmers. Bad software is usually due to management issues and/or requirements that do not match the users’ (and the developing company’s) needs.

Ben

]]> By: Greg Moreno http://gregmoreno.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/i-hope-the-software-works/#comment-311 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:27:44 +0000 http://www.microisv.com.ph/blog/i-hope-the-software-works.html#comment-311 I have never met a programmer who prides himself in producing bad software. Building software that will help others is simply our nature. We have the open-source success to prove that. The quality of software is a management issue, not a technical one. QA activities being discarded, testing time being reduced, or programmers doing what they are not good at are all management decisions.

Steve McConnell once said that the success of software depends on strategic decisions, not on tactical ones. QA, no doubt, is one strategic decision that management should make.

]]> By: Ben Simo http://gregmoreno.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/i-hope-the-software-works/#comment-310 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:37:14 +0000 http://www.microisv.com.ph/blog/i-hope-the-software-works.html#comment-310 I am one of those customers that spends more time filing defect reports than using the software — and I complain about tools made for testers. ;)

Good testers (they are not always the same) are there to help protect revenue and reduce liability. The risk of releasing software without adequate testing is just too great to bypass testing by an external (as in separate from development) group of testers.

Ben
http://qualityfrog.blogspot.com

]]> By: sweetperceptions http://gregmoreno.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/i-hope-the-software-works/#comment-309 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:24:09 +0000 http://www.microisv.com.ph/blog/i-hope-the-software-works.html#comment-309 I always tend to say that.. simply because I never had a good QA team. I must say, I loved the QA team that we had (in a project I belonged to before).. and yes, they were indeed powerful enough to stop a release.

I hope that more companies wouldn’t ignore the essence of a good QA team. This will aid not only in egoless programming but also for keeping maintenance programming to a low.

Cheers!

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