---
title: "A good tester"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/16/a-good-tester.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/16/a-good-tester.html"
published: "2005-06-16T09:24:00"
updated: "2005-06-16T09:24:00"
tags: ["Agile Related"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Now, this is what a call a good tester. \"The developer thought I was insane when he saw me rocking my desk with my knee while typing... \" (via Brian Marick )"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# A good tester

By Roy Osherove June 16, 2005 In [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 16, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

Now, **[this](http://www.kohl.ca/blog/archives/000104.html)** is what a call a good tester.

_"The developer thought I was insane when he saw me rocking my desk with my knee while typing... "_

_(via [Brian Marick](http://www.testing.com/cgi-bin/blog/2005/06/15#jiggling-the-contacts))_

## More in Agile Related

[All posts in Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related)

- Jun 18, 2005

    ### [Use Mock Logs instead of expectations when it makes sense](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/18/use-mock-logs-instead-of-expectations-when-it-makes-sense.html)

- Jun 17, 2005

    ### [Write clearer more powerful tests with the unofficial NMock 2 Drop](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/17/write-clearer-more-powerful-tests-with-the-unofficial-nmock.html)

- Jun 16, 2005

    ### [Mock Objects vs. "Inherit & Override"](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/16/mock-objects-vs-quotinherit-amp-overridequot.html)

- Jun 15, 2005

    ### [Mock Object testing can cause trouble - here's why and possibly how to avoid it](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/15/mock-object-testing-can-cause-trouble-heres-why-and-possibly.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/