Evaluation is a form of feedback. This includes evaluation of testing team in the organization which is to give feedback about testers and how well they do their job. Objective feedback is necessary in all cases. However and in case of evaluating testers, several things might go wrong. In this post I will focus on one way of evaluating testers and will show what might go wrong with it based on my experience.
“Those who want really reliable software will discover that they must find means of avoiding the majority of bugs to start with, and as a result the programming process will become cheaper. If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.” ~ Dijkstra
Many celebrated the coming of this new year 2013 and exchanged the wishes for a happy and blessed year. It is great that each of us decides that this new year will be a new start and a difference to what was there in the last year. (more…)
“The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.” ~ C.A.R. Hoare.
