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Date:	Fri, 2 Jan 2004 18:28:45 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: QA equals testing, Part One:Detection

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Lynn H. Maxson wrote:
>
> Get use to the idea of saying what you want in an
> unordered, disconnected manner in terms of writing
> specifications. Get use to the idea that the software
> has all the capabilities that humans have in
> performing analysis, design, and construction. You
> tell it "what" you want. It tells you "how" to get it.

The difficulty here comes when someone wants to read and understand the
specs, Lynn. Things need to be organized so they can be understood.
Can you imagine studying chemistry and not learning the table of
elements until three semesters on?

Disorganized people don't graduate, don't get hired, don't get
promoted. And they are perceived as being neurotic and psychotic and
thus they need shrinks. Will you be specifying a psychosis compiler,
Lynn, that can help your disorganized and neurotic specifications become
more balanced with the world?

I'm serious here. There's the engineer who makes the theoretical (which
is quite organized) and makes it practical. There is the scientist who
takes random pattern-matches and creates a concept (which is
organized). Then there are the weed-smoking, pill-popping artists who
are all tangentially connected to Haight-Ashbury and can't even get
organized enough to buy groceries at 7-11.

Which camp are you in?

- Peter

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