Bug Advocacy

A term, due to Cem Kaner I'm pretty sure, that places the focus of testing on getting bugs fixed.

> 1. The point of testing is to find bugs.

> 2. **Bug reports are your primary work product.** This is what people outside of the testing group will most notice and most remember of your work. (Emphasis in original)

> 3. **The best tester isn’t the one who finds the most bugs or who embarrasses the most programmers. The best tester is the one who gets the most bugs fixed.**

> 4. Programmers operate under time constraints and competing priorities. [As a result, they are tempted to rule that what the tester thinks is a bug that needs fixing "works as designed" or "won't happen in the field." A well-written bug report helps the programmer resist temptation to make the easy but wrong decision.]

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