QA in open and proprietary software
July 5th, 2007Luis Villa writes about Infotopia, information-gathering, and software QA, comparing QA problems in open source and proprietary software:
Quite simply, the big problem in QA is getting information about the state of the software out of the software and into the hands of developers as efficiently as possible.
This has three aspects: creating the information, getting it in the hands of the QA teams, and then filtering it into a form that is useful for developers to work on. Traditional QA has a very hard time getting the information… In contrast, open source QA has a whole ocean of information from the legions of volunteers willing to run pre-release code; the trick is to tap into that water without drowning in it.
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