Yet another article on testing written by someone who defines testing in whatever way conveniently ignores the icky part: people. Every time you want to say “m

Yet another article on testing written by someone who defines testing in whatever way conveniently ignores the icky part: people. Every time you want to say “manual” testing, ask yourself why you never say “manual programming.” Testing is a human, social process, just as programming is. Output checking can be automated, but so what? It’s not the essence of testing any more than running a compiler is the essence of programming.