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"If you were a brand new QA manager ..."

By James A. Whittaker

I got this question in email this morning from a reader:

"I am a test supervisor at --- and was promoted to a QA management position yesterday. I'm excited and terrified, so I have been thinking about how to organize the thought in my mind. After attending StarWest and following your blog for a while now, I am very interested in your opinion.

In praise of spiffy GUIs

Apps have business logic that hides behind a GUI. As a command-line person and a former tester who was always thwarted by the GUI when I wanted to test the business logic, I was always suspicious of GUIs. That’s perhaps the reason I once argued with Nathaniel Talbott that GUIs should be crude until a [...]