{"id":94250,"date":"2022-09-21T17:29:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T17:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/?p=94250"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:05:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:05:36","slug":"mighty-tester-why-it-doesnt-need-to-be-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/opinion\/editorials\/mighty-tester-why-it-doesnt-need-to-be-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mighty Tester: Why it doesn&#8217;t need to be fixed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-94251 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Its-aint-broken-Mighty-Tester-by-Devyani-Borade.jpg\" alt=\"Image showing comic strip. In each frame, the tester is speaking with another developer. She says &quot;I found a bug.&quot; Dev1: &quot;It was working yesterday.&quot; Dev2: &quot;It works on my machine&quot; Dev3: &quot;It's not a bug, it's a feature&quot; Dev4: &quot;It's not in the requirements.&quot; Dev5: &quot;It's only a nice-to-have&quot; Dev6: &quot;Did you try restarting your machine?&quot; Dev7: &quot;The user would never do that&quot; Finally in the last frame, the tester says to herself: &quot;And that concludes our developer bingo&quot;\" width=\"984\" height=\"1872\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"spaced-bottom padded--tight scheme--lightest-grey\">\n<h4>Commentary Competition<\/h4>\n<p>Enjoyed the topic? Have a relevant anecdote? Disagree with the author? Leave your two cents on this post in the comments below, and our favourite response will win a $50 Amazon gift card. The competition closes two weeks from the date of publication, and the winner will be announced in the next Simple Talk newsletter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47125,53],"tags":[95506],"coauthors":[48716],"class_list":["post-94250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials","category-featured","tag-automate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94252,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94250\/revisions\/94252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94250"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=94250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}