I had a previous job where the testers would always do that, just report "broken" or "doesn't work" for just about everything. I eventually figured out that th

I had a previous job where the testers would always do that, just report "broken" or "doesn't work" for just about everything. I eventually figured out that they didn't actually want bugs fixed. They wanted to have lots of bug reports open and the application looking broken all over the place. Why? To justify the jobs and headcount and existence of the QA department. The QA managers would even resist movements towards automated testing, to protect their own turf and the employment of the far-too-many manual testers. I eventually got quite used to the disappointment in a tester's face when he had to close a bug report because it had been fixed. Classic case of "if you're being paid for a problem, the last thing you want to do is solve it."