Originally Posted by techie

I understand why it was done this way, it was just easier. As someone who had quite a bit to say in that thread and is also quite technical, I wish I was given the opportunity. Looking forward to seeing what BA has conjured up and hope those lucky enough to be invited do a proper job

Originally Posted by tuff

I am managing a software upgrade at the moment and although I get value from the techies doing their testing, I get just as much value from letting the end users loose on a test environment and inviting them to play with it and break it if possible. The techies tend to stick to their test scripts. The end users never do as they are told and can therefore find bugs that standard testing wouldn't find.