In my previous post, I wondered "will the credit crunch crunch quality?"

But maybe - just maybe - now is the best time to be thinking about software quality...

Think about it.

When is the best time to start a new business? When the market's stable and dominant players are difficult to knock off their perches?

For the morbidly curious among you, here's a link to a (suitably anonymised) quality assurance strategy for what some might describe as an "Agile project" team.

There's much emphasis on defect prevention and "left-shifting" (the practice of moving testing further upstream in the design and

I just made my 3000th comment/post over at SQAForums. I've been a member and have enjoyed being part of that community since 2001. 8 years and 3000 posts.. wow.

I spend a lot of time posting in the "Performance & Load Testing" and "Automated Testing" forums. Good stuff.