Friday, January 21, 2011

The best dev in my world is a SWE that was a Tester before.

Our QA Team Lead Erfana had shared this link with us. I have managed to watch & listen exactly 27 minutes of it. You need to have patience to complete the entire video. I am keeping this link here so that it does not get lost. I wish to see the entire thing of it.Up to this 27 minutes, the best comment/feeling of the speaker seems to me is "The best dev in my world is a SWE that was a Tester before."
This is so very true. Sometimes i also felt that what if we ask the developers to act in my role for some time. In each sprint we can follow a convention that developers will pick at least two Testing task. It will help to grow the testing mind set in them. That will help them to write bug free code later. While coding they will learn to think as a manual tester, or i can say user also.
GTAC 2010: Turning Quality on its Head