Proud to be a tester
Do you read stickyminds? It’s the online portion of Better Software Magazine and provides great insight on…well what else…making software quality better :) I think it is a really cool interactive environment to find out more about issues related to this area and network with people from across the industry.
Harry Robinson, resident Microsoft Test Architect, has a great article up there today. It’s all about tester pride in his opinion or at least evangelizing it through your bumper sticker!
Software testing or quality assurance or whatever you may call it is extremely important to the lifeblood of any software company. I mean you can’t exactly ship software that doesn’t work for your customer, right? :)
Just a thought...
Zoë
11 Comments
Ry Jones said:
how about this as a link: <a target="_new" href="http://lnk.nu/stickyminds.com/nw.asp">http://lnk.nu/stickyminds.com/nw.asp</a>
Coder2 said:
My company doesn't believe in QA. Instead of hiring QA they tell the programmers not to create bugs in the first place.
The programmers took their advice and haven't written a single bug since January 3rd, 2003.
Brian Korzeniowski said:
Interesting how this blog does not render corectly in ForeFox 1.0. :-)
Mike Andrews said:
Coder2: "...a single bug since January 3rd 2003" - wow, I hope that's tongue in cheek! The only way that I can see this being true is either a) you've not let the programmers touch a line of code, or b) all they've been working on is "Hello, World" type programs. Virtually all complex programs will have bug in - I guarantee it. Point me to the project and I'll prove it :)
Reading Harry's current StickyMinds article reminds me of following a car into school the other day. The license plate was "TESTR". When it had parked it should have been pretty obvious who got out - Cem Kaner :) - (www.kaner.com) Testers have so much more fun that straight programmers. There's only a few ways that you can write a bit of software "correctly" but countless ways you can break it (and make the programmers cry). Being the last line of defense against crappy code is like having a badge of honor.
Ry Jones said:
I noticed it doesn't render in firefox, too.
Coder2 said:
Mike Andrews,
Yes that was my attempt at humor. :->
Dave Fourputtinski said:
Programmers should not be the final testers of their labors.
Test as if there is one more bug, because there is!
Whether it be coding, making crack cocaine or Texas Hold 'Em poker strategery, there is always one more problem that has yet to surface.
Mike Andrews said:
Coder2: I thought it might be, but you'd be supprized at how many places I actually hear that *not* in jest :)
AT said:
Coder2,
There is even more funny thing told one of our managers at my company:
Lead developer reporting about work progress of intern: "She found a lot of bugs. But she is busy testing another project now"
Firm owner answer: "Ohh.. So how many bug she still need to find ?"
Pretty nice answer.
Ask people at Microsoft QA about this. ;-)
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