测试者的首要目标就是让自己无事可干

The primary goal of a tester should be to work themselves out of a job!

来自BJ Rollison的blg（http://blogs.msdn.com/imtesty/archive/2009/10/01/the-primary-goal-of-a-tester-should-be-to-work-themselves-out-of-a-job.aspx）。

(关于他是谁，可以查一下，简单的来说是MS的test architect，也是How we test software at Microsoft的作者之一。)
看完之后有强烈的共鸣，或者应该说是敬佩。无话可说，摘录几句。文章不长，建议读一下，任何正在或者将来成为职业软件测试者。

“Software is knowledge. Software is the intangible product crafted by ateam of people who have pooled their intellectual knowledge to helpsolve a complex problem and add value to those who use that software.”

“One way software testers can significantly contribute to theintellectual knowledge pool is through defect prevention instead ofdefect detection.”

“Organizational maturity and professional growth occurs through solvingincreasingly complex problems, not by continually dealing with the sameproblem.”

“Finding ways to prevent defects or identify issues earlier, andessentially drive quality upstream are exciting challenges that willadvance the practice of software testing and increase the value of ourcontributions to the intellectual knowledge pool and advance theprofession of software testing.”

 

 

by Ricky, 2009-10-29