[IxDA Discuss] Testing a hypothesis

[Jim Drew]

>From: mark Schraad <mschraad at mac.com>
>
>Edward Tufte is one of my heros. But this is not smart thinking... either arrogance or myopia. And, in my humble opinion, it is wrong. Always test at some level. And the earlier in the process the better. 


On one project at the first company I worked for, the project specification document (or whatever the right term was: scoping needs and time requirements for each department, feature list, yadda yadda) had this line (more or less):

"There will be no need for Quality Assurance on this project because quality will be built in."

Nearly 15 years later and I still can't say that line with a straight face.

-- Jim