roland comments on Rationality Quotes November 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: roland 05 November 2013 08:22:03PM 17 points [-]

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

-- Peter Drucker

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 09 November 2013 07:40:36AM 7 points [-]

"It is far better to improve the [quality] of testing first than to improve the efficiency of poor testing. Automating chaos just gives faster chaos." -- Mark Fewster & Dorothy Graham, Software Test Automation

Comment author: snafoo 05 November 2013 10:02:17PM 1 point [-]

See also: the distinction between verification and validation, or between quality control and quality assurance.

Comment author: roland 06 November 2013 07:51:50PM 1 point [-]

I dont get the distinction between verification and validation.

Comment author: passive_fist 07 November 2013 07:02:18PM 3 points [-]

I really like this sentence (from wikipedia):

It is sometimes said that validation can be expressed by the query "Are you building the right thing?" and verification by "Are you building it right?"

Comment author: roland 09 November 2013 07:31:57AM *  1 point [-]

Thanks! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verifying

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