The importance of QA
- Posted by Eric Ocequeda on July 21st, 2010 filed in Uncategorized
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Think back to yesteryear when everything was so simple. Think back to a day where once an idea was thought up it was manufactured and sent to market right away. What a grand time that was huh?
Wrong! it wasn’t, before testing of products became standard manufactures would do what ever they could to cut cost and corners at the expense of bodily injury or even death. Before the advent of the term “QA” testing was simply known as, testing a product. When the automobile was first invented, before the first car came off the line crude test were done to see how the car would react in a crash.
QA is a part of all the products around you, most of the time products are not allowed to hit your local stores until they have received the OK from QA. I wish that was totally true, some companies like to ignore QA’s tests results in favor of getting their product out as quick as possible, but that is a different topic for another time.
QA has a very thankless job, if a product succeeds the developer gets all of the praise and accolades that come with a successful launch of a product. If a product fails and is not functioning the way it is suppose to QA gets all the blame. So next time you turn on your TV or you are viewing a website that is working properly, give your local QA guys some thanks and a pat in the back for a job well done.
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