MrMeritology

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   by MrMeritology 11y ago

   I'm not using "software QA" in the very broad way you describe in the first sentence. Also, "defect" as I use it does not mean every short-coming of the product. It means "something doesn't work (or fail
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   by MrMeritology 11y ago

   OP here. Agreed. I'll modify my post to clarify that I'm talking about "QA as a process", which usually involves people with "QA as a role", but not always.
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   by MrMeritology 11y ago

   See: http://exploringpossibilityspace.blogspot.com/2016/03/micros...
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   by MrMeritology 11y ago

   OP here. I just added another blog post with additional evidence that this was a QA problem, specifically related to an open source library (ALICE) and the AIML rules they reused and modified. http://exploringpossibilityspace.bl
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   by MrMeritology 11y ago

   I just wrote a follow-up post giving more evidence: http://exploringpossibilityspace.blogspot.com/2016/03/micros... I call it "poor software QA" because, generally, the software QA process is supposed to