Royal Pain

[David Thornton]

Peter L. Peres wrote:

>On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, David Thornton wrote:
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>>I read a boot called "Quality without Tears" which totally addressed the
>>concept of quality in business. It was a great read. It tries to bring
>>that methodical approach that we expect from engineering-like processes
>>to "fuzzy" bussinesss related processes. One major thesis of the book
>>was "Quality is conformance to specifications". And it went on to talk
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>Ok, so his perpetuum mobile works when you're looking ;-). I respect your
>opinion but please respect mine. My ideas about fault finding and quality
>control and such are based on 18 years of electronics and a couple of good
>books, such as:
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>Quality Assurance for Computer Software
>Robert Dunn and Richard Ullman
>McGraw-Hill Book Company (1982)
>ISBN 0-07-018312-0
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>whose first chapter is titled:
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>"PART 1 INTRODUCTION
>	How Did a Nice Discipline like Quality Get Mixed Up
>	with Computer Software ?"
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>This book also does not address the problem of how to write good computer
>software. Worse, the word 'perfection' is not a part of its index ;-) And
>I'm just a kid compared to others on this list.
>
>Peter
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So tell us about "Quality Assurance for Computer Software". What do you 
learn. What did you find rang true for you? What did you disagree with?

Give us a mini review.

I have to admit , being an egg myself, I don't quite grok parts of your 
post:

"Ok, so his perpetuum mobile works when you're looking ;-)"
    What do mean?

"please respect mine"
    Is there some way in which I disrespected you?

david
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