1 Testing does not equal quality .. but can you improve quality without testing?
Recently I was telling somebody that testing will not improve quality, it is what you do with the information that testing provides that will improve quality. They then asked, can you improve quality without testing? I found this an interesting question. I decomposed this into the following questions. Can you improve the quality of software testing without getting any information? and if testing is about providing information, does that mean that anything which provides information would be considered testing? I ...