Testers – Most disliked as well as most liked people in the organization?

In many of the organizations, testers are in fact disliked. This is because developers do not like their mistakes being pointed out by someone else. Tester becomes a bad guy once he/she points out a problem. So most of the development and testing teams fight with each other either on the screen or behind the screen.

Almost in all industries this is termed as “US” vs. “THEM” mentality. Software industry is not an exception to this concept.

Though it looks like the development team dislikes the testing team but internally they are in a position to like the testing team since they need someone to test the product what they have been developed. Without the assurance given by the testers they cannot release the product to the outside world.

At your work place even you can see some development team leads used to fight with you (the testing group) would approach you personally saying like “Hey please test so and so part in the product rigorously”. If he is very much confident in the development work done by his team then what is the necessity to approach the test team seeking to test it rigorously (even without his request testers do their job for what they are being paid)? This clearly reveals that though they dislikes at some point of time they will surely like the test team on few occasions when they are in need.


But as a tester, despite of liking or disliking by the development group, one should deliver his/her testing responsibilities to the best to uncover the defects.

According to me “US” vs. “THEM” Mentality should be present in tester’s mind but with a positive approach and not with an offensive approach against development group i.e. testers should work for the goodness of the project and not for the goodness of the developers.