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Discussion on: As a Developer, Sometimes You Should Play the Role of a Tester

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Marissa B

Having a good relationship with the testing side of the house can be a lot of fun. I had a friendly "rivalry" with a Quality Engineer at a previous company where I started to learn his typical ways to break my stuff. I started being more mindful to handle those cases to make my features more robust and stupid-proofed for users, then he one-upped and learned some new testing procedures to dig up weird bugs in the platform itself. It was a fun back-and-forth so we'd have more focus on the intricate, major problems instead of petty little things like "lol this let me enter a string as a number, fix it!" that weren't interesting to either of us.