Reply #8: Maybe this will help you figure it out: [View All]

[kiva]

So tomorrow your boss tells you that you are getting a group of trainees, and that any raise, even your job itself, is dependent on how well they perform.

But...you don't get to decide who your will train, you take whomever is sent to you; it turns out that a third of them have massive personal problems that interfere with their ability to do the work, another fair chunk don't have the skill set necessary to learn what you are teaching them, and several have financial problems that force them to work another job, meaning that they don't get enough sleep and miss a few meals along the way.

You know that if your trainees' families could help, it would really benefit your trainees, but too many can't or won't; a minority of your trainees really don't want to be there, and will passively or actively limit the progress that your group as a whole makes.

Which is a long-winded way of saying that you are really missing the point of the discussion about testing.