Why you need QA people, and why you need them NOW!

Stop for a moment and ask yourself:

* How many times have you get tired of the back-and-forth on bug reporting and fixing after months of development?
* How many times have a project go over budget because developers didn't get all necessary scenarios covered in their tests?
* How many unsatisfied emails did you get from angry clients that just wanted their projects delivered on-time with the expected quality?

If you've answered _several_ for any of these questions, it is probably time to review your QA (Quality Assurance) strategy!

In this session, we're going to discuss how dedicated QA people could partner with the PM and the Tech Lead/Architect to ensure better coverage of the use cases/test scenarios on multiple projects and how it would help in controlling the quality of the software delivered by your developers.

Throughout this session, we'll see how to take better advantage of several well-known tools, but also talk about simple scripts, internal tools, and sets of rules for pre-screening and managing projects' deployments.

Besides that, we'll also cover the need to teach our customers the importance of QA.