Why do we Test?
The people who test in order to ensure the product is released with good enough quality. Or those who test to “to be part of making a better world, to help people” – this is a really good reason if you ask me! And we can even go as far as mentioning those who test because no one else will do it, or at least no one else will do it right.
We are here for the Value, not for the Bugs, but…
I will be the first person to come forward and say that the job of the tester is not to find the bugs, but to provide stakeholders with visibility into the product to make their decisions…
But as only another tester will understand, there is a mindgasm related to finding those bugs that you are sure no one else would find in a thousand years, and that by finding them you just saved your company thousands or even millions of Dollars!
We don’t do it because of the glory. After all, what glory is there in finding the issues that should not have been there from the start. We do it for the challenge!
Anyone who has ever completed a “very hard” personal challenge, such as to quitting smoking, graduating from College, losing 5 Kg, or finishing a 10K race will know. There is a great level of personal satisfaction that comes from achieving a hard and demanding task that required the skills and perseverance that only you could provide.
This is the same feeling we testers get from discovering those important and hard-to-find bugs.
Next time someone asks, you do it because you like it!
The bottom line is that if you feel something like the way I described in these preceding lines, it means that you are into testing because you derive satisfaction from it.
There is no shame in accepting this!
And so, next time someone asks “Why are you a tester?” you can simply answer him or her that you do it because you like it, and you enjoy the challenges that testing provides you as part of your work!
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