thoughts from the test eye

This is an idea you see and hear now and then. It comes in different shapes, ranging from testers needing to have an independent manager, to testers being best if physically separated from developers, or even outsourced, or crowdsourced.
Cem Kaner writes in The Ongoing Revolution in Software Testing that this notion primarily is a “fear [...]

Sometimes it is said that each test case must have an expected result, or even worse, that each step of a test case must have an expected result.
This is the extreme of scripted testing that I dislike for two reasons:
* It takes a lot of time to write and follow detailed test cases; time that [...]