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06 Aug 16
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you positively, absolutely, need to have a QA department. You are going to need 1 tester for every 2 programmers
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The QA department should be independent and powerful, it must not report to the development team,
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If you're in a hurry, skip the rest of this article, and go out and hire one full-time tester for every two full-time programmers on your team.
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By avoiding testers, we can force the programmers to write correct code in the first place."
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if you look around at the process you have in place for rolling out new versions, you'll realize that it may be quite an expensive proposition to roll out fixes on the web.
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The worst thing about this form of testing is the remarkably bad impression you will make of your company.
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With testers, like programmers, the best ones are an order of magnitude better than the average ones
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And finally. The number one stupid reason people don't hire testers:
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This is the stupidest, and it's the easiest to debunk.
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No matter how hard it is to find testers, they are still cheaper than programmers. A lot cheaper. And if you don't hire testers, you're going to have programmers doing testing.
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Software has bugs.
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- when the programmers are about halfway done, release the software on the web without any testing.
- when the programmers say they are done, release the software on the web without any testing.
- repeat six or seven times.
- call one of those versions the "final version"
- release .01, .02, .03 versions every time an embarrassing bug is mentioned on c|net.
3. My customers will test the software for me.
Ah, the dreaded "Netscape Defense". This poor company did an almost supernatural amount of damage to its reputation through their "testing" methodology:
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viniciusjlHere are the most common boo-hoo excuses I've heard for not hiring testers: 1. Bugs come from lazy programmers. 2. My software is on the web. I can fix bugs in a second. 3. My customers will test the software for me. 4. Anybody qualified to be a good test
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