Re: [rant] Upgrade to 9.2, any advice?
Re: [rant] Upgrade to 9.2, any advice?
- Subject: Re: [rant] Upgrade to 9.2, any advice?
- From: JollyRoger <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 23:57:33 -0600
On 1/15/2002 10:05 PM, "Michelle Steiner" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 1/15/02 7:08 PM, JollyRoger <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I know what it takes to obtain the level of QA the people in this thread
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> are asking for. Some of the latest AppleScript blunders could have been
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> prevented with a simple QA procedure. It's not unreasonable for Apple's
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> customers to expect a certain level of quality from Apple.
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A year ago, I retired after working for twelve years in software QA (it
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was my second profession, and second retirement); eight of which was at
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Claris. (I got laid off in Jan 98, along with about half the company,
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when they became FileMaker, Inc.)
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A few weeks after I left Claris, I interviewed for an SQA position with
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the Applescript team. (Chris might remember interviewing me.) I did not
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get the job. I have enough conceit to believe that I was well qualified
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for it, but that one of the other four applicants was even better
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qualified.
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If their standards now are what they were four years ago, I'm sure
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they're doing an excellent job of QA within the time and personnel
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constraints they have. I doubt that the problem is in either procedures
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or the ability of the test engineers, but rather that there are not
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enough engineers and/or the development cycle is too short for adequate
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testing.
That may be. But my point is that there does seem to be a drop in quality,
and that users are not wrong for expecting better quality.