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Whoa. How does that work? Isn't that like us editing our own work? How
many of us would be surprised to miss errors in our work. While we
seldom have the "luxury" of an editor, most engineering groups I have
worked with have at least one QA engineer whose sole responsibility is
to qa the product. I am even concerned when QA reports into engineering.
Conflict of interest and I am not talking about a large or even medium
size company here. Sure, a start up won't have QA (maybe) but . ..
Candis Condo
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Subject: Re: Happy to be a Tech Writer?
Exactly... most of the shops I've been in haven't had even an informal
test
and QA process. The developers code it, do their own testing and ship
it.
Mike
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From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "Kevin McLauchlan" <kmclauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>;
<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: Happy to be a Tech Writer?
>I suspect that many of us who find ourselves in this position
> are working in environments where there may not *be*
> "Eng-Test and QA and integration support people" who are
> separate entities from whatever team the writers report to.
> When I was an engineer in a big aerospace company with
> Test, QA and Systems Integration groups, we engineers and
> the few writer/editors who supported us seldom knew much
> more about the "overall product" than our particular part
> and how it interacted with its next highest level assembly;
> in the 30-person company I currently work for, "test, QA
> and integration support" are performed by a team of...
> 30 people.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin McLauchlan" <kmclauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
>> I find it fascinating that a number of you seem to work in companies
>> where
>> the writer knows more about the overall product than the Eng-Test and
QA
>> and
>> integration support people.
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