Cross-functional teams are growing in popularity, influenced in no small part by the growth in adoption of agile values and the methodologies that support them.

Whether it's a side effect of getting developers and testers working more closely or due to the undulating skills demands from iteration to iteration, each team-member is increasingly expected to have more diverse skills. Furthermore, Test Driven Development increases the need for developers to know more about testing; automated acceptance tests as part of Acceptance Test Driven Development written in the same language as the product increases the need for testers to know about programming.

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