No, I’m not trawling through my xmas cracker jokes. I was looking through the programme for DevWeek 2014 and both my sessions are tagged as “Test”. This is following a pattern started at ScanDev last year and followed by several other conferences at home and abroad.
Why am I bothered? It’s not that I mind being associated with testing at all. I don’t think of testers as a lower form of life. I *love* testers. It’s for the same reason that Dan North and Chris Matts started using the “should” word instead of the “test” word all those years ago – developers think that the test track is not for them.
Both my sessions at DevWeek are about types of testing that developers should be doing routinely. “So long, and thanks for all the tests” explores what makes a test valuable and what practices developers should consider adopting. “Mutation testing – better code by making bugs” is an alternative to code meaningless coverage metrics that can help developers ensure they’re sticking to their definition of done.
Q. When is a tester not a tester?
A. When they’re a developer.
You’re right. It’s not funny. So, it’s ideal for a cracker.
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