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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

Published Feb 14 2007, 09:48 AM by Jeffrey Palermo

Comments

Jason Gerard said:

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.

# February 14, 2007 11:21 AM

Andrew Stopford's Weblog said:

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

# February 15, 2007 7:10 AM

Jason Darling said:

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

# March 26, 2007 6:25 PM

About Jeffrey Palermo

Jeffrey Palermo is a software management consultant and the CTO of Headspring Systems in Austin, TX. Jeffrey specializes in Agile coaching and helps companies double the productivity of software teams. Jeffrey is an MCSD.Net , Microsoft MVP, Certified Scrummaster, Austin .Net User Group leader, AgileAustin board member, INETA speaker, INETA Membership Mentor, Christian, husband, father, motorcyclist, Eagle Scout, U.S. Army Veteran, and Texas A&M University graduate.