| Agile_tester 2006-08-28, 8:05 am |
| Welcome to the real world.....
But without kidding you: you might be more about how many bugs you did
find. But don't hang 'm up the wall because it might be seen as a
threat to the developers (you get a they-vs-we culture).
Why don't you tell about good old Barry Boehm's figure, in which he
explains what the costs are when you find a bug during requirements
phase, development phase, testing phase or from production. The
differences are huge! So anytime you find a severe bug, you save the
company lots and lots of money. If you know how much time it will
take the organisation to fix a bug from production, and you know how
much time it costs to fix a bug from your tests, you also have a
great figure how much time you saved the organization. Does this
help?
And yes, testers and QA are merely undervalued because management
doesn't get punished for delivering bad quality. They just focus on
delevering on time and budget, with fixed functionality.
AnkoTijman
Posted from the Dutch software testing community at www.testforum.nl
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