<i>Perhaps you simply think that my company is placed in a less than ideal market. I assure you, it's worth being in the game.</i><p>I do, only in the sense that in your market, your costs can justify your operations in a way that not many markets can match.<p>Joel makes bug trackers, so I stayed in that context although I spoke in very black and white terms. I'm not intending to profess the ultimate solution to everyone's process, but I am trying to speak to a majority of start-up centric developers-cum-managers.<p>Doing what you do... hell hire 25 testers for every component; just don't kill anyone.