Providing testers with predefined requirements, test cases, or automation can paradoxically limit testing effectiveness. When given requirements, testers often stop after verifying them without considering completeness or exploring beyond constraints. Without constraints, testers default to whatever previous stakeholders requested. Experienced testers learn to test both with and without requirements, but this skill isn't intuitive for newcomers who mistakenly view requirements as making testing easier when they actually create false stopping criteria.
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