Why Don't Managers Understand What Good Testing Is?
Almost 10 years ago, I was sitting having a quiet drink waiting for a couple of friends to arrive when a fellow walked over and sat down. Did not ask if he could, just sat down. Rude bugger. He was a senior boss type in his own organization. I was... not a boss type. Still, he sits down and asks me a question. "I don't know how you deal with this. I would think you get this all the time. It seems like every few months I get called into my manager's office to answer questions about why we do what we do and why we don't do what these "experts" say we should be doing. It can be everything from metrics that are supposed to show us where all the problems are or sometimes some best practice that someone is pushing or some tool or other for test management or some requirements tracking tool that lets you show what you're testing and how much testing you're doing and how good a job testing you're doing or something. I explain to him why that stuff ...