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Automated software quality assurance really matters

How do we ensure that software actually works the way it is designed to work?

We use software quality assurance (SQA), which I began doing as part of my job as a member of a compiler-writing team in 1979. It became evident very quickly that manual methods of SQA are a hopelessly inefficient and ineffective way of finding errors in software. We absolutely have to implement automated testing to have any hope of catching errors in the software we write (or test).

Recently I had the privilege of interviewing Andy Chou, Chief Scientist & Co-founder of Coverity. Here is the first of three parts of our edited conversation about automated software quality assurance (ASQA).
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