Test, Test and Test Again

snikkersnak writes "Richard Collins has written a piece about developers and testers; the article is arguing that in closed development these two roles have to be chained together one-on-one in order to reproduce the 'release early and often' effect of open source development."

Comments

ABsolutly

[Ingolfke]

I am in 100^ agrement hear. Far to often developer dont test and check they're code before they release it This resultsi n a poor edn-user experience. Tey wrok two fast always trying to git on to to the next thing.

Test test tst!!$

Automated unit tests

[tcopeland]

I think the trick here is for the developers to write lots of automated unit tests. This catches the vast majority of obvious bugs, and lets testers become more like "power users" or something. That is to say, rather than the testers writing bugs like "I did xyz and it crashed" they can write bugs like "it'd be great if this screen had a 'quick user lookup' field". The testers then begin to think of ways to improve and streamline the application, the end users get a better experience, and the developers have more fun because they're actually adding features rather than constantly fixing easy bugs.

Andy Glover has a good blog on testing and QA in general. He uses FitNesse and TestNG and various other Java testing tools so he's pretty up on all the latest junx.