Wake Up! All Testers Need to Know How to Code!
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Argues that testers do not need to know how to code as a requirement and that most value comes from design thinking around problems rather than writing lines of code, claiming the actual amount of programming work for testers is very small compared with the thinking work. Notes that much current automation is routine and likely to be handled by AI or machine learning advances, and warns that excluding people for lacking coding skills reduces diversity without adding business value.
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