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Standardize draft articles with YAML frontmatter including title, date, topics, related, and abstract. Expand README drafts section into a table listing all drafts with topics. Add "Testing Telos" to published articles.
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| The Tester as Witness | 2026-04-20 |
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Inspector, scientist, explorer, investigative journalist — the legal metaphor is conspicuously absent from our vocabulary for testers. A witness does not argue the case, render the verdict, or stand for the prosecution, yet their testimony is what the court's judgment rests on. That distinction cleanly dissolves the "tester as gatekeeper" confusion. |
The Tester as Witness. You've done inspector, scientist, user, explorer, investigative journalist. The legal metaphor is conspicuously absent. A witness does not argue the case, does not render the verdict, and is not the prosecution — but their testimony is what the court's judgment rests on. This cleanly dissolves the "tester as gatekeeper" confusion you raised in Five Essential Lessons. Hume on testimony1 and C.A.J. Coady's Testimony: A Philosophical Study2 are obvious references.