Why cant a developer test his own software?

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Why cant a developer test his own software?..

Answer / rajkumar

its like why cant a student correct his own test papers!!!

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Why cant a developer test his own software?..

Answer / tztexas

A developer is responsible to unit test their code.
Developers are usually paid more than testers and they are
usually looked upon with more favor by management. With
this in mind, developers don't have time to test. They
bring in the money by writing applications. Also, here is
an example.
a Basic accounting system. You have General Ledger (GL),
Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR). A
developer may be coding the AR portion or the AP porition.
That portion may work great. But when you combine the GL,
AR, and AP portions, that is when there is a better chance
for defects. Again, a developer does not have the time to
test. if they did, a company would not need to hire a team
of software testers.

And a more simple reason would be, A developer has written
the code, they have unit tested it, they believe it is
correct and therefore to them it doesn't need any more
testing.
When you look at something too much, you tend to have
tunnel vision.

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Why cant a developer test his own software?..

Answer / vicky

The main reason is lack of Objectivity.he may not able to
find his own mistakes.

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Why cant a developer test his own software?..

Answer / warpkill

The reasoning holds true in any job where the task(s)
performed is mission critical. Just as in accounting or even
in TV & papernews, you need a different set of people who
can validate that the solution, product or information is
correct.

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Why cant a developer test his own software?..

Answer / edeprabhakar

there are two reasons
1.a person cannot perform two tasks at a time
2.sentimental attachment

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Why cant a developer test his own software?..

Answer / 123

Developer only developed the software and he knows each
flows of his codes and logics, some times lack of time or
mood they may ignore the some mistakes and also due to dead
lines they may not find such errors and also they will be
confident on their code, so considering all these developer
if he tests his own software also he will be thinking that
his code is still working fine.

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Why cant a developer test his own software?..

Answer / biju

Because anybody who creates something would have an
emotional relationship to his creation, In this case a
developer would have an emotional relationship with the code
as he has written the code and would never like/want any one
(including him) to find bugs in his code.

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