Re:Signposts for “when to hire more QA testers”
by Jtsummers on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:05PM
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A problem that lead to (2):
Developers aren't paid to test, the majority of their time is spent making new code because that's what management/customers want. Having one person have to wear 2+ hats doesn't work when they can never take one of the hats off.
If they were legitimately given the amount of time to test as they get to code, your project could take twice as long, but it would be more thoroughly tested. And, likely, it wouldn't take twice as long because they'd actually have to think about testability and design earlier. And by "test" I do not mean just unit tests. Designing and implementing integration tests, assembling regression test suites, etc.
Devs focused on just unit tests will never catch the errors that a dedicated V&V team can find.
Developers aren't paid to test, the majority of their time is spent making new code because that's what management/customers want. Having one person have to wear 2+ hats doesn't work when they can never take one of the hats off.
If they were legitimately given the amount of time to test as they get to code, your project could take twice as long, but it would be more thoroughly tested. And, likely, it wouldn't take twice as long because they'd actually have to think about testability and design earlier. And by "test" I do not mean just unit tests. Designing and implementing integration tests, assembling regression test suites, etc.
Devs focused on just unit tests will never catch the errors that a dedicated V&V team can find.