A framework for Good Enough testing

After a year in Sunnyvale, California, doing test management, the author is moving to Virginia, where he's been hired by Reliable Software Technologies, a company known for tools and consulting dedicated to achieving very high quality software. He'll spend most of his time in a consulting role, which is a very different reality from software management. But it will be an interesting one, nonetheless, especially since he's never worked in an environment that puts reliability ahead of marketability, or even abreast of it. He's known for his Good Enough quality model, so it may seem strange that RST recruited him. But as it turns out, RST believes that a very high reliability standard is-for them-just part of good enough quality. The same thinking about quality applies no matter where one places oneself on the quality scale: at every point in the life cycle, one must compare the present quality of the product against the cost and value of further improvement.