Drew
Drew
Sep 8, 2018 · 1 min read

So by this logic, anyone who did testing on a project any time before now doesn’t have “fresh eyes” for testing now. Because that person helped make the software what it currently is.

The whole point of pair programming is to have more than one person thinking about a problem and challenging one another to solve better. I think at the very least that’s the spirit of “fresh eyes.” And when I’ve seen it work, the code produced had fewer bugs in easily-overlooked edge cases.

And to answer your question, apparently we don’t need professional testers. More and more teams are doing without. I think we lose a little something when we do that. But trying to find specific ways to phrase things to make testers seem more useful than they are? I think we can afford to lose that.

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