http://distributedlife.com/blog/2008/06/testing-body-image.html passionate about everything Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:04:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://distributedlife.com/blog/2008/06/testing-body-image.html/comment-page-1#comment-361 distributedlife » How can we make testing sexier? Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:50:51 +0000 http://distributedlife.com/blog/?p=82#comment-361 [...] As I’ve mentioned before, testing has an image problem. There are many reasons for this and in some cases I feel that we, as testers, have ourselves to blame. But before I do that, let me blame everyone else. Organisational management tends to have an obsession for cutting costs in the testing department. Project management often look towards crunching testing when a project runs over schedule? How often is testing recruitment a process of migrating users from business lines or service desk operatives into the testing team? How often is the testing team used as a way to allow coders and business analysts to get up to speed with the system? It’s unacceptable. [...] [...] As I’ve mentioned before, testing has an image problem. There are many reasons for this and in some cases I feel that we, as testers, have ourselves to blame. But before I do that, let me blame everyone else. Organisational management tends to have an obsession for cutting costs in the testing department. Project management often look towards crunching testing when a project runs over schedule? How often is testing recruitment a process of migrating users from business lines or service desk operatives into the testing team? How often is the testing team used as a way to allow coders and business analysts to get up to speed with the system? It’s unacceptable. [...]

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