In this episode Matthew and Federico revisit the idea of a combined developer and tester role. The discuss some of the benefits and some of the down sides to blurring the line. Providing justification for having a blurred role and also justification for the need to keep the roles separate. Join them as the debate and give their thoughts on the separation of roles or the lack there of.

This Week’s News

• Extending the TekPub Give-A-Way deadline to allow for more entries (more information will be post here)
• Security Patch for POET exploit

Developer vs. Tester Role

• Organizational Structure
  • Dev org & Test org
  • Orgs don’t combined until several levels up
  • Drives organizational goals not product goals
• Possible Solutions
  • People switch roles between Dev and QA
  • Everyone is responsible for both Dev and QA
  • Responsible for both with Experts
  • Stay separate
• A few misc ramblings about it all