Developer interaction with testers

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Ok, I've run into a scenario at work which I think is a little weird.* Our chief tester (leads the group of three testers at our small company) found out that a developer was running a test against the test database (he was repeating a test that had failed, using the same data that the tester had used, but giving a bit more depth to the test given his greater knowledge of the code)*-- the lead tester went absolutley mental and stated that he wants developers banned from accessing the test database.

 

To me this is ludicrous (developers are not allowed to see the results of failed tests in order to figure out what the bug was). I've never come accross this before*in any of the companies I've worked for (including the medical systems that sailed past the FDA).* Our lead tester claims that in every company he has worked for (three previous companies on his resume) developers would be disciplined for accessing the test database.

 

I don't see the difference between a developer running a test and a tester running a test.* I fail to see what the issue is.

 

For those of you that work with a dedicated test department, is this a normal scenario?

 

I should point out that our testers do very little automated testing -- it's 99% manual.* They also don't do any performance testing (we use performance logs on our customer's systems to trace performance).

 

 

Any thoughts?

 

 

Herbie

 

 

 

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