No comment.

Cortlandt Wilson
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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Peter da Silva
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 5:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Quality Control at Microsoft-was: Please cut
out the M$ ad hominems


In article <[log in to unmask]>,
Cortlandt Wilson  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> MS programming is done in teams -- one active programmer and one tester.
> The tester is usually a programmer too and so is able to create all the
> testing infrastructure such as unit and stub testing rigs and automated
> testing that often get short thrift.   As a result MS has a large database
> of automated test cases.  Also with daily builds there is very little lag
> between programming and testing feedback.

You don't get quality by testing, you get quality by design... and redesign.

You have to be able to throw things away.  I don't think Microsoft has ever
thrown away a line of code, except by terminating a project completely.

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