Yesterday, I spent yet another evening researching private blogging options. Several months ago, I started a private blog to share with the people who are helping us launch WatirCraft. I've had these before at previous companies. I think I...

Software is about the only industry that lumps testing and QA under one banner. It's one of those things where common misuse of a term results in the community changing it's meaning... this happens in mainstream language all the time.

Testing something is actually more analogous to quality control or, QC. QA is more concerned with the process - collecting information about the performance of the process in order to determine if we are 'assuring' (or more realistically increasing the probability of) quality. Statistical information about problems found in the product (during quality control) is just one of many pieces of info useful to someone concerned with QA (which really should be the whole project team)