I've done my share of testing. When you walk into a meeting with the most senior dev team in the (significantly sized) shop, ask a single question about an und

I've done my share of testing. When you walk into a meeting with the most senior dev team in the (significantly sized) shop, ask a single question about an underlying assumption, and have development go back for another couple of weeks to take another whack at it, you realize -- as one example -- that "testing" is not simple. If you're lucky, you're doing real QA, where an smart, knowledgeable, and independently minded QA analyst can discover and raise such concerns before the work gets done. "Testing" is a shithole because many (most?) shops don't give it much respect -- nor resources. P.S. One of the shorter meetings of my life. 5 minutes, including the socializing. The technical part took maybe 2.