Skimping on tests doesn’t speed you up; it just leaves you flying blind.

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Testing should be treated as a core engineering practice, not an afterthought. Writing tests early improves code design by providing immediate feedback on interfaces, enables confident refactoring through reliable CI checks, and facilitates collaboration by uncovering edge cases and serving as living documentation. Tests that are hard to write often signal poorly designed code. Integrating testing throughout development leads to better software design, reduced stress when making changes, and earlier discovery of hidden requirements.

Testing is software engineering

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When you move testing and quality work out of the dev team you will get people that produce horrible horrible code and then have them claim “Its the QA teams job to make sure that it is of quality”.
Quality is 100% not something you outsource but something your devs &amp; designers should be responsible for!

You couldn’t tell from the pay for us software testers. I’m making less than an intern at my current company. I have 20 years in the software testing and automation space, and the pay does NOT reflect the effort.

Testing should be done both by devs and QA testers. QAs are taking user’s perspective.