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The difference between programmers and testers (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I think that the main difference is that developers tend to test for success (i.e. does it work as defined) and that testers should also test that it doesn’t fail when a user gets hold of it.