Quality-Assurance Fundamentals
Like management and technical fundamentals, quality-assurance fundamentals provide critical support for maximum development speed. When a software product has too many defects, developers spend more time fixing the software than they spend writing it. Most organizations have found that they are better off not installing the defects in the first place. The key to not installing defects is to pay attention to quality-assurance fundamentals from Day 1 on.
Some projects try to save time by reducing the time spent on quality-assurance practices such as design and code reviews. Other projects—running late—try to make up for lost time by compressing the testing schedule, which is vulnerable to reduction because it's usually ...
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