[cloths]

I can't agree more.

> Focus: There is real value in having people at your company whose focus is on the quality of your end product. Quality might be “everybody’s job”…but it should also be “somebody’s job”. Yes indeed, naturally every person have just one focus, having dedicated person focus on QA is important.

Another practice, or buzz word (or used to be buzz word:) ), Exploratory Testing, which can pretty much be conducted only by dedicated QA.

[philk10]

That's pretty much my role - I don't write test cases, I'll explore the system and try to find issues that the devs have missed. Then they learn from what they missed so I have to explore more to find other types of issues.