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Created by Chris Cox on November 01, 2006, at 09:06 PM Just Testing. A popular phrase when people are making changes to system configurations and software, especially when the platforms are "live". Even if you disagree with such cavalier testing, the point is to test. An advantage to the "release early and often" paradigm is that bugs can be discovered faster. The disadvantage is that you may cause things to go down... sometimes in a very, very bad way. Testing is an area that is underappreciated. If you use GNU/Linux or other open source software, it is likely that you are a tester. That's not a "slam". Being a tester is probably the most important software position there is. Unfortunately, testing often gets a bad label pinned to them by software development. I hate it when I hear things like, "I used to be a QA tester, then after I got some experience, I became a software developer." Huh? Does that make ANY sense at all? Do you think it takes more skill or less skill to create tests and uncover potential problems in software? So... here's to testers everywhere! Without tests, no software would function correctly. |
