Re:Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests...
by k__ on Thursday December 08, 2016 @10:42AM
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In the last company I worked, we used people completly unrelated to our field.
They were cheap and since they didn't know a thing about the software, they would mindlessly click through the test-plans and find many bugs.
Problem with them were, that they had a "half-life", when they learned too much, their bug-finds would decrease, because they would get more careful when using the software.
Often we would simply get 2-3 students of a non-technical field and replace them with new ones afer 1-2 semesters.
They were cheap and since they didn't know a thing about the software, they would mindlessly click through the test-plans and find many bugs.
Problem with them were, that they had a "half-life", when they learned too much, their bug-finds would decrease, because they would get more careful when using the software.
Often we would simply get 2-3 students of a non-technical field and replace them with new ones afer 1-2 semesters.