[ros-dev] Interested in the Testing Coordinator position

[Toby Smithe]

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 08:11 +0100, Murphy, Ged (Bolton) wrote:
> I hate ugly text formatting ...
> Resending in a (hopefully) readable format.
> 
> Jerry wrote:
> 
> > After a team says that it has fixed the bug ...
> <snip>
> > Each team may have mentees associated with it. The teams would then 
> > help and guide their mentees in testing and coding, and these mentees 
> > will help with the work load that the regular testers have. The goal 
> > here is to guide the mentees to be regular developers and either stay 
> > in testing or move on to other parts of the project and have. 
> 
> I'm a little confused with the idea of the testing teams fixing bugs.
> 
> Testers aren't usually coders. It's great if they are as they can fix the
> bugs they find, but in general testing positions are filled by people who
> want to help the project, but aren't programmers.
> 
> If a tester is a programmer too, I think you'll find that do a lot more
> programming than testing, as shown by our tree instability at the moment ;)

Yeah. I don't code, but I like to help out testing (and will start again
once I fixed my partition layout...). If I could code, that's what I
would be doing; as it is, though, I cannot fix these bugs.