{"id":18,"date":"2006-07-09T06:37:46","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T05:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paul.sinnett.name\/archives\/18"},"modified":"2006-08-20T21:41:02","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T20:41:02","slug":"the-best-tester-i-ever-worked-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/archives\/18","title":{"rendered":"The best tester I ever worked with"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading an <a title=\"James Bach's blog entry on the relationship between developers and testers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.satisfice.com\/blog\/archives\/54\">entry<\/a> on James Bach&#8217;s blog reminded me of the best tester I ever worked with. It got me thinking about how he did it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Like most testers, he had an uncanny ability to break the product: a co-worker calls this &#8220;Hands of Breaking.&#8221; But he also had an intimate understanding of the relationship between the code&#8217;s modules.<\/p>\n<p>I never considered before how that was possible. He had no programming experience. He never looked at the code.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps something of the code&#8217;s structure pokes through into the product; something a tester can see that I can&#8217;t? Perhaps he can see it because he&#8217;s blind to the underlying structure and I can&#8217;t because I&#8217;m not. Whatever it is, more exposure, even to a broken product, seems to improve that awareness.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe while I&#8217;m logging my defect reports I should take care to avoid supposing what the problem might be and just record what&#8217;s happening at the surface. Maybe I can also develop a tester&#8217;s eyes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d forgotten about this experience until James&#8217; article reminded me. How many other revelations lie hidden in my experiences waiting for the right cue to become clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading an <a title=\"James Bach's blog entry on the relationship between developers and testers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.satisfice.com\/blog\/\">entry<\/a> on James Bach&#8217;s blog reminded me of the best tester I ever worked with. It got me thinking about how he did it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-process","category-programming","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}