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I think possibly you are not quite understanding what Kent meant. Those people you mention are not getting paid for tests, they are being paid to give confiden

by keithnz 10y ago

I think possibly you are not quite understanding what Kent meant. Those people you mention are not getting paid for tests, they are being paid to give confidence that some software system works, they use tests to do this, just like Kent does. His point is about delivering working code with a certain level of confidence. Meaning if tests don't increase your confidence, but simply put in to tick a box for having a test, you aren't getting paid for that (or if you are getting paid for that, someones lost sight of what they are trying to achieve)

acqq 10y ago
In my specific case, that I've mentioned, the tests surely increased the confidence as they were the part of the whole process, where the results from the tests were used to modify the product in question until it was able to pass all the tests. The tests allowed to proactively "solve the bugs" which would otherwise produce much more problems if the product had been used in production without these tests.