3/06/2013
I was never asked before if a programmer should know how to test. The underlying assumption is that programmers know hoe to test their own work, and therefore are skilled at testing. Problem is that they are not. And the sad thing is that so far they have managed to get away with it. I’ve been a professional programmer(that is writing code for a living) for more than 10 years, in all the places I’ve worked my managers did ask me if I tested my work. And my answer was always “of course”. But never was I actually challenged on that. No matter how many bugs were found in my code, no matter how much empirical proof there was that I did a bad job at testing. None of my technical managers ever told me, “please take this work back and test it again, and this time for real”, ever. And never...
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