QA Hates You » Maxims

Borrowed Maxim

The Director — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:26:26 +0000

From a post by Michele Smith:

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. (General George Patton)

As a reminder, in QA you get style points if you actually shell-shock a dev team.

Axiomatic != Automatic

The Director — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:02:28 +0000

I only state the obvious because it’s often ignored: Trusting the developers is not a quality assurance process.

A Maxim From The Original Latin

The Director — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:45:24 +0000

The physicians’ first rule: Primum non nocere. First, do no harm. Silly physicians

QA’s first rule: Primum nocere. Quondam res est vulnero, tentatio iterum. First, do harm. Then, when the application is down, hit it again.

(No free Internet Latin translators were harmed in the creation of this maxim; however, the same cannot be said to those instructors or speakers of Latin who might read it and suffer.)