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Add consistent front-matter schema to CLAUDE.md and GROK.md, including title, date, topics, related articles, and abstracts. Apply similar front-matter to draft files (agile-stories.md, uses-and-abuses.md) and published articles (Agile-Or-Whatever-You-Call-It.md, Testers-As-Explorers.md, etc.) to improve indexing, searchability, and cross-referencing. Ensure topics use a controlled vocabulary and abstracts capture core theses.
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title: "What Is A Competent Tester?"
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date: 2025-12-04
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topics: [craft, philosophy]
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abstract: >
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Joel Spolsky on the critical distinction between building a team of
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competent testers and collecting a team of failed programmers.
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Wise words from the early days of the web explosion:
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> “*A particularly terrible idea is to offer testing jobs to the programmers who apply for jobs at your company and aren’t good enough to be programmers. Testers don’t have to be programmers, but if you spend long enough acting like a tester is just an incompetent programmer, eventually you’re building a team of incompetent programmers, not a team of competent testers…*” [Joel Spolsky](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2010/01/26/why-testers/ "https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2010/01/26/why-testers/")
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