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Testers are like Eeyore...

I came across the below this morning, and I thought it would make a lighthearted blog post....


Does this sound like any QA you've ever met? To me it sounds like almost every QA I've worked with over the past fer years!

Often however, they have every right to be worried, and it's this worry that drives us to test things to the best of our ability, so it's definitely not something that we should knock out of testers. I think it's important to have the right amount of worry, and to worry about the right things.




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  1. Lisa19 May 2014 at 11:39

    I don't mind being compared to a donkey! :-> They are quite intelligent and sensible!

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    1. Gareth Waterhouse20 May 2014 at 01:13

      And eeyore is pretty cool! Although very lugrubious!

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  2. mohit28 November 2018 at 03:35

    Just found your post by searching on the Google, I am Impressed and Learned Lot of new thing from your post.

    Splitwise
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