{"id":11557,"date":"2019-10-30T21:03:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/?p=11557"},"modified":"2025-05-05T21:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T21:23:11","slug":"does-software-testing-improve-quality-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/software-testing\/does-software-testing-improve-quality-actually\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Software Testing Improve Quality, Actually?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Twitter debate: Do testers improve quality, help improve quality, or\u00a0only pass info to others who do so?<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Lately, I\u2019ve been closely following a super interesting Twitter discussion about whether or not testers improve software quality. Yes, we find the bugs, but are we just the messengers? Or are we active participants in the construction of great digital products?<\/span><\/p>\n

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I’ve never liked the characterisation that a tester doesn’t actually improve quality, they provide information that can be used to improve quality. It’s too much of a hands off, not my problem, abdication of responsibility attitude and it has never reflected the way I work.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Gregory Paciga (@GregPaciga) October 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Basically, Paciaga complains about what is often said that testing does not really improve quality, but the objective is to give <\/span>information that can be used to improve quality<\/span><\/i>. It’s like washing your hands, taking the responsibility and passing it onto another (to developers, a PM, the CEO, etc.).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this sense, and according to much of what several people have said in the chain of tweets, I loved the quote that Enrique Almeida\u00a0tweeted that\u00a0Monica Wodzislawsky from <\/span>CES<\/span><\/a>\u00a0shared during her talk at the <\/span>JIS.UY 2019<\/span><\/a> conference in Uruguay:<\/span><\/p>\n