Why is there so much fuss about the silent battle between the coders
and the testers? I've been a coder all my a academic life and the
professional life afterwards, so I can articulately say that coding is
just a small portion of the entire design which includes requirement
specification, system design, testing, support, maintenance and so on
and so forth. Coding happens to be 15% of the entire job and testing a
lot more than just 15%. Coders are given more credit in places like
the sub-continent where they are considered the builders of an entire
system. This is the general conception about coders in this part of
the world because of generations of considering coders as the main
frontliners. But the world is changing and my shifting from coding to
testing will inshallah be a decision that will make me go places.

Thank you

Intekhab Sadekin
Software Testing Engineer
Therap Services Ltd.
Dhaka, Bangladesh

--- In sqa_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com, "Sajjadul Hakim" <sajjadul@...>
wrote:
>

> > But talking about myself, I can't
> > imagine myself as a tester (or QA guy or whatever you call it),
cause not
> > having the opportunity to create will make me feel crippled and if
you feel
> > the same way, you should know by now what to choose for yourself.
>
>
> Well actually, testers do get to create. Just not for the same reasons
> programmers do :) Here is a good quote from Cem Kaner in
> software-testing group:
>
>
> SOURCE: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/software-testing/message/4391
> =============[Start Quote]============
> We are professional investigators. Rather than building things, we
> find ways to answer difficult questions about the quality of the
> products or services we test. Our job--if we choose to do it
> well--requires us to constantly learn new things, about the product,
> its market, its implementation, its risks, its usability, etc. To
> learn these, we are constantly developing new skills and new cognitive
> structures in a diversity of fields. It also requires us to
> communicate well to a diverse group of people. We ALSO get to build
> things (test tools), but very often, we build to our own designs,
> which can be more satisfying than building an application that does
> something we'll never personally do (or want to do). Learning to do
> good software testing requires learning to do critical thinking well,
> and to back it up with empirical research.
> =============[End Quote]============
>
>
> Regards,
> Sajjad
> http://rapidtester.blogspot.com
>