I'm enjoying The Vernon Richard Show a lot recently because the vibe Vern and Richard have created is one where two knowledgeable and experienced mates talk around a topic they are both interested in with curiosity and open minds. Also, there's less football than there used to be. This week's show is titled When Everything Sounds Like Testing… How Do You Explain What You Really Do? and sees the pair discussing the meanings of quality assurance, quality engineering, testing and other related terms. There's no firm conclusions, and enough left unsaid that they're carrying the dialogue over into the next episode, but I was still interested to see these two models put forward: In the first, proposed by Vernon, quality engineering consists of preventing bugs (QA) and detecting bugs (testing). In the second, floated by Richard almost in spite of his better judgement, quality assurance is the holistic term. In this ver...