Wednesday, November 12, 2008

10 habits continued...

Recently I submitted this topic to a conference and watching if this will be published :)
anyways moving to the habits that makes a tester inefficient, here we discuss the next habit
//This is a hypothetical picturization as if there is an interview being conducted of an in-efficient tester.

Habit # 3: Ask yourself: “Why should I Test?”
This habit motivates me to ask the very first question when I start any project. This question is very thought-provoking and pushes my senses to think again and again as to why I am testing. I am surrounded by lots and lots of good friends, effective developers—believe me, I trust all my friends, I trust my developer friends, I trust my designers, I trust my product management folks. This trust gives me confidence as to why my testing is needed. I trust all people who are contributing to the software development life cycle, I trust their activities and contributions and being friends I should not be identifying faults in their deliverables.
When I think of these points I get answers to the question that starts coming in as soon as we have new projects, that why should I test when I know my experienced friend has developed the code and unit tested it.