For the past few years I have been teaching new testers at Microsoft. Before beginning the Microsoft ‘assimilation’ process I always ask each new group to define testing in one sentence and list the primary objectives of software testing. Invariably, the majority of folks new to software testing believe the purpose of software testing is to ensure quality and the primary objective is to find bugs. Unfortunately, this is an antiquated view of testing, and perpetuating these limited perspectives of testing simply retards the role of testing from maturing into a professional discipline in the field of computer science.
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