Bad Blood

my attempt to demystify the main argument against dedicated specialists

Many of you know that I spent a long time studying software testing. Over time, I’ve made discoveries - software isn’t made the same as it was 20 years ago, and my approaches to shipping high quality software have changed. I’ve learned that the destination (quality) is far more important than the journey (testing). Probably worth mentioning that this line of thought has led some people to say that I am “harming the craft of testing”. Interesting take, but if my choices are to either improve testing or improve quality, I’m choosing the latter every time.

We Got Problems

I don’t really want to rehash the anger-fest from 9 months ago, but a few points of clarity have been brewing in my brain-soup for a while, and today is as good as any to piss people off. My DMs, emails, and social media feeds tell me that more and more people in software are beginning to accept that developers are capable of testing. But a lot of those people don’t believe they should test.

Weird.

Here’s the Thing

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