Shun the Experts .. Long Live the EXPERTS

Software testing has become a Bastard science . Put the testing experts in a room and u see them going for each others throats in a jiffy.

Experts have all the rights to have differences of opinion(after all “when compromises continue REVOLUTION stops) but i always hope it could be done in a more dignified manner and with humility. I am no expert nor have insights into what goes on in their minds but what i have seen is that the same experts who speak about creativity , freedom of expression et.c. behave in the most vile manner when their beliefs are questioned.

Some have become so confrontationist to any opposing views that their tone changes to a jingoistic one, not remembering at many times that there is a fine line between ‘proving your point’ and megalomania . There is a literally a a blood bath on every forum,group , blog , conference where these experts interact.

People who oppose semantics and terminology’s saying they make u narrow minded go on to propagate their own definitions and terminology’s.

They try to split the community into schools of thought(read the very interesting article by Bret on schools of testing :http://www.pnsqc.org/files/FourSchoolsofSoftwareTesting.pdf ).

In this game of one upmanship they manage to confuse the bystanders and force them to align themselves to their school of thought. At many times we see its the commercial interests being propagated camouflaged as knowledge sharing.

As a bystander and a student of testing this has become repulsive.

Shouldn’t the EXPERTS(respected and self professed) be trying to confluence their ideas?
Do we need to split up into schools of thought?
Do we need to fight over the semantics?

If we look back into history a classical example might come from the schools of thought of the Indian Philosophy, where the schools( Sankhya, Yoga ,Nyaya , Vaisheshika ,Purva Mimamsa, Vedanta) having divergent views still existed besides each other in harmony. They seen as complementary and supplementary to each other and was not an either or not situation. We had the austerism of Mahavira and crass materialism of charvaka having healthy dialogue with each other and co-existing.

Long live the EXPERTS………

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