* test effort is more than 50% * a developer will spend more than half of his/her professional life with testing, but only <5% of the developers education will be devoted to testing
I know, that this statement is old (actually it is from the preface of the first edition from 1983), but do you think it also fits into today? Please consider there are approaches like test driven development where this probably can be very different.
Or how about this (see 2.)?
Programmers are not necessarily good testers. Lousy programmers are usually lousy testers.
Some great testers are also excellent programmers and some excellent programmers are also great testers, but you canbe very good at one and poor at the other.
1: Boris Beizer (1990): Software Testing Techniques, Second Edition. Van Nostrand Reinhold, ISBN 0-442-20672-0, page xiii
2: Cem Kaner, Jack Falk, Hung Q. Nguyen (1999): Testing Computer Software, 2nd Edition (Paperback), John Wiley & Sons, Inc. - ISBN: 0471358460, page 359-360
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