What quality tensions are worth negotiating?
Deciding what really matters can be hard, yet it doesn't have to be that way
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Gary Hawkes
I love the reference to what a customer thinks is an issue is not always what testers think is an issue. I think thats why its so beneficial to get people into QA/QE from support, dev, product backgrounds as that really powers up the perspectives of what quality is.
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