muddlizard (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} muddlizard) wrote,@ 2006-03-07 16:29:00 |
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software testing -- my response
Development is not (should not be) a promotion from Testing.
You can have an awesome tester who'd suck as a dev, and vice versa. Looking strictly at payscale, development could be counted as a promotion. Also, development positions often require a CS degree, whereas testing does not -- though some stuff from Mudd has helped me tremendously at work.
I'm so tired of people who think they can get their foot in the door by testing, and then move to development. And I'm tired of the companies (not Omni, fortunately) that follow such a policy.
Development is not (should not be) a promotion from Testing.
You can have an awesome tester who'd suck as a dev, and vice versa. Looking strictly at payscale, development could be counted as a promotion. Also, development positions often require a CS degree, whereas testing does not -- though some stuff from Mudd has helped me tremendously at work.
I'm so tired of people who think they can get their foot in the door by testing, and then move to development. And I'm tired of the companies (not Omni, fortunately) that follow such a policy.
