WHY is it so hard for software professionals to see the obvious (I admit, it was hard for me too):
1. Quality and testing activities are the responsibility of the whole team, not of only the QA team
2.
The programmers who write the production code can do the test
automation in a tiny fraction of the time it would take the testers to
automate in any tool, especially one like QTP
3. If the testers don't
have to waste time trying to automate tests (probably creating tests
that are too expensive to maintain and provide bad ROI), then they have
oodles of time to collaborate w/ customers & devs to elicit examples
of desired and undesired behavior, which they can then turn into test
cases which are automated quickly and easily by the programmers. Then
the same testers will also have oodles of time in which to do the
essential exploratory testing. Everyone gets to do what they do best,
everyone collaborates, high s/w quality results.
Sigh.
Source: http://swtester.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/quality-center-must-die.html
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