First the good news.

I'm in the process of launching a new conference here in sunny old London Town (or "Larndarn Tarn", if you happen to have been born here).

I can't give away too much just yet, because:

a. There's not that much to give away, and
2. There's many a slip twixt cup and lip, and there's always the danger of these things falling through

Posted by Philip Zembrod, Software Engineer in Test, Sweden

So you're working on TheFinalApp - the ultimate end-user application, with lots of good features and a really neat GUI. You have a team that's keen on testing and a level of unit test coverage that others only dream of. The star of the show is your suite of automatic GUI end-to-end tests — your team doesn't have to manually test every release candidate.

A while back, I wrote a post on breaking code, in which I suggested that testers don't add value to a project; they merely defend the value that's there. This isn't a general systems law, but any general utterance should have a couple of specific exceptions or alternative views. So, with the passage of time, here are a couple.