
Helene has been testing software since we met in college back in 1999. Today she is the head of QA at S&P Market Intelligence managing hundreds of people. I don’t know how she does it but she is the kind of person that breaks every piece of software she touches… even when she doesn’t want to… like the in-flight entertainment system on a long flight to France. About 15 years ago, I made a terrible mistake and asked her to test a web application I had written. She ripped it apart in minutes. I felt like the worst developer in the world, and I probably wasn’t far off. I never wanted to feel that way again, so I got better at writing tests. Now I’m only ranked second worst, right after that dev who doesn’t test at all.
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