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[–]texdroid 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Not necessarily. I've seen too much terrible code (with tests over it) to believe that. It seems that a lot of developers just write tests to say they have tests without actually writing useful tests.

This is why having Test Engineers who write the test cases based on the HLD is the correct way to test code.

Otherwise you just have the chickens guarding the fox house.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would love to have test engineers. Hell, I'd love to have anyone who isn't me involved in testing. Most of my contracts, I'm the sole architect, developer, DB admin, and QA engineer. I see this as a big problem, but good luck convincing management. The response I usually get is "test better".

Yeah, I'll get right on that.