Re: job thing, maybe

"krw" <krw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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One thing to be careful about with a "test engineer" is that the
job is often looked down on by others.

Agreed; I believe that one of the reasons finding good test engineers is
difficult is because they generally have to be able to do most everything the
design engineers do, and it's the unusual person who would still prefer to
test rather than design when the job is slightly denegrated and lacks the
glory of being a designer.

It tends to let the designer
off the hook. "Give it to Mikey (test guy), he'll do anything".

Yep... I've known so-called design engineers who honestly believed that, "it
compiles!" was the sum total testing *they* were expected to do; the test
engineer was supposed to be the one finding all their bugs. :-(



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