>At one end of the scale if you are writing a one-off utility application for your own use then you won't want to spend much time writing defensive code and testing functionality.
>OTOH if you are sending a man to the moon you do a *LOT* of testing.
>Most applications falls somewhere in between. I've certainly worked on projects where there were more testers than programmers. But I suppose that could be a reflection on the quality of the programmers :-{
Viv,
Yes I have seen that too when the programmers get really good they can hide those bugs so it takes whole team of testers to find them.