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“No-Fault” Testing

It is important to realize that the introduction of variances is a normal and expected consequence of the human activity of developing any product. How many times have you "To err is human ... “? This implies that testing should be a no-fault process of variance removal.

Testing is a cooperative exercise between the tester and developer to detect and repair defects that the development process has injected into the product. It should be apparent to anyone who has tested that this process of removing defects is complex and demanding, accomplished only by a skilled team of personnel. They must use good techniques and tools in a planned systematic way.

At the end of a development project, the team hopes that testing has been so successful that don’t have to invoke the last half of that famous saying to forgive is divine!”