I cannot endorse this article, full of personal experience that were never true in Amazon or Google. Particularly it's the testing done by other people and the

I cannot endorse this article, full of personal experience that were never true in Amazon or Google. Particularly it's the testing done by other people and the unit testing. Testing people are certainly needed in many cases, but the article gave no reason why it has to be done by other people. Just because devs spent a lot of time working with tester, and they enjoy that time, does not make that way of testing the better choice. I worked with tester in Google, absolutely the most unproductive organization inside Google. All normal places have conducted their own testing before releasing to customers, internally most (had no experience working on consumer products). Edit: > Sounds like you had a bad tester. Opposite of my experience. A good tester is a gift from the Heavens. This sounds like just a statement without backup.