I’ve admired James Marcus Bachs’ stance on software testing for a long time. He has a wealth of experience and a true passion for testing which I found invigorating as much of what he says resonates with me. Most of what James says i would label as common sense (even though its actually uncommon), but because for years i have been told not to question the high wizards of testing, even when i knew so many of the things i was being asked to do as a tester did not give the organisation i worked for any real, tangible value.
So i was a little befuddled when James published A Tester’s Commitments on his blog. I know James has a firm view of what happens on his blog, its a bit like his radio show, if you leave comment, you are effectively calling in. So when i left a comment i knew it may be discarded.
Regardless, I left a fairly lengthy comment…