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Are you a developer-tester or tester-developer? - level 200

Every programmer tests, but does every tester program?  I submit that the good ones do. 

Jason Darling sent me these two great articles that dig deeper into this discussion.

 

http://www.testobsessed.com/2007/01/17/tester-developers-developer-testers/
http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/developer-testers-and-tester-developers.html


Posted Wed, Feb 14 2007 9:48 AM by Jeffrey Palermo

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Jason Gerard wrote re: Are you a developer-tester or tester-developer? - level 200
on Wed, Feb 14 2007 11:21 AM

Unfortunately, in many organizations that have dedicated testers, they are just employees plucked from the user pool. They don't know about concepts such as automated testing or even negative testing for that matter.

In the eyes of management, it's cheaper to take someone from claims processing making $19,000 a year and pay them $24,000 a year to be a "tester" of the claims system than to acquire these kinds of testing engineers.

I've worked with several organizations where this was the case.

Andrew Stopford's Weblog wrote Developer-Test, Tester-Developer
on Thu, Feb 15 2007 7:10 AM

Jeffery Palermo has a post on "(good) developers test so do testers develop?". My take on this

Jason Darling wrote I Don't Want to Graduate, I Want To Be A Great Tester
on Mon, Mar 26 2007 6:25 PM

I recently read John McConda's blog on hiring testers and where testers "fit" within his company. Until

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