[ros-dev] Interested in the Testing Coordinator position

[Jerry]

I understand that many testers are not coders, but having at least one or two 
coders on each testing team with the non-coder testers would make the teams 
self sufficient and be able to fix bugs more rapidly.

On Friday 20 October 2006 02:35, Toby Smithe wrote:
> 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.
>
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