Successful projects are built on the foundation of precise requirements and the ability of teams to interpret, analyze, and review requirement documents. There are many customers who find it difficult to express their thoughts in words. Even if they are able to express themselves, there are many complexities that can arise due to the number of people involved, the skills of different team members, and the complexity of the domain. Without understanding the requirement documents (yes, there is a distinction between the requirements and the requirement documents), we would be on the path to making costly mistakes. Many projects suffered losses when the teams discovered the differences between intentions and implementation during the first demo.

You’ll have a difficult time finding people and companies who disregard software quality. QA is fundamental to every product’s success. Even so, why do we see so many buggy products, delayed releases, and frustrated customers? There must be something fundamentally wrong with how we deliver software. We wanted to find out what causes poor software quality, among other issues like this. Because quality is multi-dimensional, every stakeholder has their own definition and understanding of quality. After discussing with multiple testers spread across product and service companies, one thing stood out — practices play an important factor in the overall software quality.