What's your Fault-Feedback-Ratio?

Clusters? I'll believe it when I see it

Print this out...

Every so often, you hear a manager or developer or even a tester saying: “Lets migrate ALL the manual tests into automated scripts. This will be better because blah blah blah”.

To combat such foolishness, I have designed a picture to print out and pin up by your desk so all your visitors can finally understand the truth; it’s brain power of a tester that identifies and reports bugs and a developer who removes them, and not an automation tool (unless of course someone else identifies the bugs, but I don’t want to talk about that right now).
To add even more impact to the print out, you could colour it in :o)

BIG BUGS

There are countless documents, articles, presentations, whitepapers that use the graph where the cost of identifying and fixing a bug increases exponentially over time. Last year I read one whitepaper that had this graph, naively I thought it would be worth reading (since it had this graph)… how wrong was I? The whitepaper didn't say anything about finding defects early to reduce costs - nothing whatsoever! I felt that I'd lost half an hour of my life, I felt cheated; no joke; I take the testing profession seriously - even if I create testing cartoons!
Although they say time heals, I'm now really sceptical whenever I see the same graph pasted into yet another testing article.