Quality control at the system level. (includes related articles)

From: Online | Date: March 1, 1992| Author: Dolan, Donna R.; Craumer, Patricia; Anderson, Barbara | Copyright information

The years before the introduction of a Quality Control department at BRS (1976-1982) seemed like the Dark Ages." Programmers designed, coded, and tested new system features. Sometimes, they moved a new feature into the system with only minimal testing. During this era, customers were the ultimate testers, and often did the debugging after a new feature went live." That is, bugs reported after-the-fact by users were promptly fixed with the rectifying programmer doing the retesting...

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