tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951904624959546499.post6272635016038940532..comments2009-07-09T13:08:32.943-04:00Eric Jacobsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08216361684596485033noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951904624959546499.post-43884365052491645122009-07-09T13:08:32.943-04:002009-07-09T13:08:32.943-04:00Michael,<br /><br />That&#39;s some damn good therapy. Thank you, doctor. Should I call you in the morning?<br /><br />Seriously, the next time I feel stupid, I will try to convert that feeling into said suggestions.Eric Jacobsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08216361684596485033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951904624959546499.post-2132590162748014872009-07-09T04:45:15.959-04:002009-07-09T04:45:15.959-04:00Eric,<br /><br />Nice post. I think you have encapsulated how many testers feel. <br /><br />There are indeed skills that each member of the team possess that the other don&#39;t. A good team is one that recognises that. <br /><br />I think it is natural for testers to feel stupid at times. O&#39;m glad I&#39;m not alone.Rob Lamberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13629927272259841916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951904624959546499.post-52874869910715517782009-07-08T20:54:37.814-04:002009-07-08T20:54:37.814-04:00What if we adjusted some language here?<br /><br />When I find out that &quot;production bugs have to be patched (the kind I should have caught)&quot;, I might feel embarrassed. But I also feel human. I&#39;m not perfect.<br /><br />When I read &quot;devs talk about code or architecture I don’t understand&quot;, I feel intrigued and excited, and maybe a little innocent. That&#39;s okay; they weren&#39;t born knowing this stuff either.<br /><br />When &quot;non-testers log bugs&quot;, I feel good that at least someone found the problem, and that we know about it now. I would like to have found it. Oh well; I hope I&#39;ve learned something for next time.<br /><br />When &quot;I have to execute brainless tests that the guy on the street could execute&quot;, I feel disempowered. It doesn&#39;t take long for me to work my way out of that problem. Plus, I feel motivated to observe something more than what the brainless tests tell me to observe.<br /><br />When &quot;I can’t remember if I tested a certain scenario and my executed test documentation is incomplete&quot;, again, I feel human. I&#39;m not perfect. Ideally, I feel humble.<br /><br />When &quot;the team celebrates individual dev accomplishments for feature sets and QA is not recognized&quot;, I feel resentful. Or I can choose to feel confident that they couldn&#39;t have done it without me. I don&#39;t need another coffee mugh.<br /><br />When &quot;my bug is rejected by dev for a legitimate reason&quot;, I feel like I&#39;ve learned something.<br /><br />When &quot;I read a software testing blog post about some tester with 95% of her tests automated&quot;, I feel proud for them, motivated to learn more, but confident that my approach is the best one for me in my context. I also wonder what bugs found by other people are going to raise feelings in them.<br /><br />I&#39;m not saying that anyone is wrong to feel a certain way; people will feel as they do. But there are always alternatives when we try to think congruently with the state of the world and ourselves.<br /><br />---Michael B.Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09027725699187903416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951904624959546499.post-76059003415826196742009-07-08T18:10:44.971-04:002009-07-08T18:10:44.971-04:00YAY! It&#39;s not just me. Thanks for making me feel part of a group instead of all alone in a fog of stupidity.Dezhttp://iamdez.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951904624959546499.post-43211620719641734992009-07-08T16:20:00.518-04:002009-07-08T16:20:00.518-04:00You need the bad to have the good.Tony Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14044205740382054059noreply@blogger.com