>>>I have read quite a few books lately containing errors where a homophone (note homonym) was used. It gets on my nerves when I am reading. I figured it was some automated spelling system that did that and not the author. How would it have made it by the editors?
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>>They just wanted to make a big savings, so they fired the old human proofreaders and turned to the new, more profitable kind of proofreaders, called customers.
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>I have worked for software companies that develop that way. It usually resulted in generating and delivering releases once a month (or less). Also, the developers are more stressed, the customer service area was large in people. And the customers were tick off all the time. (Sounds like a fun place to work.)
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>It was these types of companies that made me a firm beleiver in QA and test teams. (Currently, half the positions I have had have been as a SDET tester.)

I had a job interview the other day with a company that is manifestly lacking a QA function, not to mention other support positions like first line client support and DBA. "We can't justify a full time position for that kind of thing." In the meantime the top honchos spend a preponderance of their time on tasks that would be better assigned to staff or even clerican personnel. Penny wise, pound foolish.