CHAPTER 7

From Testers to Quality Engineers

Good testers are people who look both ways before crossing a one-way street.

Common testing saying

In the last chapter, I talked about the organizational structure of your IT transformation, and my “burger chart” of an appropriate organizational structure (Figure 6.1) had aspects of testing included. Why do I spend another separate chapter on testing? In my experience, the organizational change associated with testing is by far the most significant and the one that organizations struggle with the most. The change journey for people in testing roles is even greater—a role that used to be focused on execution of test scripts but has evolved into either a very technical test engineer role or into business ...

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