Do we need testers on agile teams? It’s the same argument again and again. One side says “team members should all be able to do everything, and the programmers should do their testing and all testers should be writing code”. The other side says “No, that can’t possibly work – programmers don’t know how to test, they don’t have the right mindset”. And the debate goes on and on
To address this common question, we caught up with Janet Gregory, co-author of More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team. Here’s what Janet had to say…