Tester job is to make things work, not the opposite!

Tester job is to make things work, not the opposite!

In my last post I forgot to mention the main idea I'd like to retain, which is, the tester Mission is to make the software work.

What we want, in the End, is to have working and satisfying software, with few relevant bugs. Let's not forget it. The more I get the software to work, the more complex scenarios I will build, and eventually the more interesting and relevant defects I will find.

If a tester gets stuck with basic defects, often superficial, often interface, but sometimes really blocking ones, he won't be able to advance in its mission, wich is to have working software. That's why I advised in my last post to start with simple and common, expected scenarios.

Corner cases are often interesting and exciting from an academic point of view, but in the long term will not yield so efficiently to working software. Although usually testing is seen as a way to find defects, I found out that on complex systems, our mindset should be focused on software success, not on software failures.