When working with Toxic substances (e.g. Production without QA), i suggest that the development group take some time and read some of the QA literature, so they can write better self-tests.

I have to say, i write a fair amount of code, and write my own self-tests, but i have found that a seperate QA person finds more bugs, because they do not have a suspicion of where they may hide. But, when i noticed this trend, i took the time to trudge through Code Complete, which, dispite it's age, was pretty good. Since this, i have started looking to Other QA books, and i think that most developer's, especially the ones without QA, should take the time to read at minimum some sort of online QA test info.

# why does cent have to be US ?
my $two = $euro/100;

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i had a memory leak once, and it ruined my favorite shirt.

In reply to Re: Stopgap measures when you don't have a QA department by MZSanford
in thread Stopgap measures when you don't have a QA department by Ovid

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