It seems that mobile testing, desktop testing and web site testing are in contradiction with a software development process. While programmers write code and construct applications, testers find defects, break programs and claim that everything is wrong.
Though testers and developers are involved in the same project and pursue the same objective – release of high-quality software, they often confront each other in course of software development life cycle.
Differences Between Programmers and Testers Are:
- Developers are considered to be respectful and hardworking people, possessing substantial knowledge, skills and experience. Testers are believed to be suspicious individuals who do nothing, but find errors in other people’s work.
- Developers always do their best creating software products. Testers are never satisfied with the quality of software products. A good tester can find software bugs at any application thoroughly performing functional testing, usability testing, load testing, security testing or another testing type.
- Programmers try to finish the software development process as soon as possible, meeting the deadline. Testers often detain the release due to insufficient quality of the system in their opinion.
All this speaks disparagingly about test engineers. But any software testing company can confirm that testers do their job not in order to complicate life of the developers and project managers, but to make the tested software of high quality and competitive at the market. So, programmers and project managers shouldn’t treat testers like enemies, but like defenders of quality.