OnJoelOnTesters

May 02, 2005
Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You Don't Have Testers

“Programmers do not make good testers.”

“No matter how hard it is to find testers, they are still cheaper than programmers. A lot cheaper.”

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Is it cheaper to have cheap manual testers, or to try and find and invest in high quality ($) automation testers?

Manual testers can only get through so much.

Automated testers say that even with automated testing, you still need human testing, like exploratory, to be good and effective.

tags: ComputersAndTechnology