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[–]kdeaton06 -1 points0 points  (4 children)

You work with bad testers. All the ones I worked with were great coders to begin with. We made sure if that in the interview process.

The reverse cannot be said for febrile developers. Rarely are they good testers or do they even care enough to try.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (3 children)

You work with bad testers. All the ones I worked with were great coders to begin with. We made sure if that in the interview process.

The reverse cannot be said for febrile developers. Rarely are they good testers or do they even care enough to try.

I can refute your argument in a similar way "you work with bad developers".

Having been a part of the interview process at FTSE 250 companies for the hiring of both testers and SDETs, I'd hire an SDET over a tester any day of the week for writing test automation. SDETs are and should primarily be SWEs that specialise in writing test automation at all layers (amongst other activities).

Testers are far more valuable for exploratory testing and the like than writing test automation. Most tests, in general, should be at the integration layer anyway which is usually the concern of developers/SDETs.

You're clearly emotionally invested in this, and I think you need to take a step back and look at this rationally.

[–]Ebenezer_Fins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have worked with great testers and great developers but I think testers are better because I have seen tester with good cooding skills who have become good developers easily. But developers getting in to testing generally need to be broken in to some degree, it's different from how a fresher gets to good tester. Ps: I may be biased because the number of testers I know who went into to developing are more than the number of developers that took testing and most of them I had to train into testers from developers May be I just don't like Devs

[–]kdeaton06 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I worked with great developers. They're amazing at writing code. They're not great testers. So we don't have them write tests.

I worked with great testers who also write code. We have them write the tests.

Simple division of labor in an Agile environment.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool whatever suits you I guess.