>>Anyway thank you to you and your group for your quick response to problems. You will always hear me complain about “testing a live system on line”. That is a personal issue with me but it is my pet joke. I know if something breaks it will get fixed – if you are willing to wait a few minutes.
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>Yes, I rapidly understood your view of testing. Yes, I understand that companies who have resources and budget can proceed like this. However, here, we can't. We just can't afford to have the additional infrastructure to support such an approach.

Michel;

Having worked in the hardware and software fields I have some knowledge of Quality Control, Quality Assurance and Software Quality Assurance. Testing and quality cost money and take resources. Some companies have no quality control – things just “happen”. They wait for customer feedback, which has proven fatal to some companies I know of.

Something I have learned from my experience in the work force. There are more "Indians than Chiefs", and more software developers than SQA people. Getting a job in a quality field is limiting your options as well as being a supervisor or manager.

Tom