title: Testers in Software Development
body: <p>In my company we develop a software product. Until now we haven't had any testers, so basically the developers were the testers, and of course the customer and users (not good).</p>
  
  <p>Our team now consists of 4 developers and we work mainly with Cruisecontrol, Flex, ASP.NET, IIS, MSSQLServer and WebORB. I am urging the managers to hire a tester but I wonder if testers are normal in software development. So:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Are testers necessary in product (or large scale project) development?</li>
  <li>Should testers only do test work? Or can you expect from a developer or graphical designer to test half of the week?</li>
  <li>Where can you find good testers (I suppose there isn't a degree in software development testing)?</li>
  <li>Is it the task of the project manager of technical teamlead to test everything?</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>thx, Lieven Cardoen</p>
  
  <p>ps: Thx, Vinay, we do have Unit Tests but indeed, Unit Tests can't cover what Testers can.</p>