One view of successful software testing

From JDJ

Step one is to take automated testing tools away from the testers; they just get consumed by them the way a child gets fascinated by Internet sites with penguins or dogs that can chat to each other.

Tell testers their role is to find defects before users do, and tell them to talk to users and get rid of any envy they have that they are not programmers.

Tell programmers they must write unit tests that run as part of the build process and a failed test is like a failed compilation run – the function is incomplete.