Software Quality Assurance Introduction

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Hello again everyone, I am taking Software Quality Assurance class and once again, I will be using this blog to summarize about what I've learned through articles and podcast throughout the semester. I've been doing internship the whole summer about software quality assurance on both UI and unit testing and I learned a lot from it, and now hopefully, this class will help me expand those knowledge even further on this area.

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