Perhaps because they have been or already are developers. Any good developer is already a tester, engaged in Test Driven Development, using xUnit family of tools, running their tests continuously with CI.

If he's on the ball he's using Behaviour Driven Development to script complex scenarios that function as both his development and test harness.

He's testing his Web Services integration with tools like SOAPUI + Groovy from Smartbear from the article and using it to do dynamic mocking for both the client and server.

He's targeting the end system, using tools like WebDriver to execute his test scripts using all the major Browers, IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari.

If he's doing all that and running his tests from the cloud to load and performance test the SUT; he might just have the technical skills to match a typical automated test engineer.

Anybody that thinks testers today are just using the Application is frankly cross ignorant of what is happening to automate the test specialism.

Test automation is the undiscovered country for developers that have done it all before a dozen times.

This will cost me karma but when will his fanbois finally understand his ego knows no bounds.

He fell out with with Daniel Domscheit-Berg and other co-founders of Wikileaks.

He fell out with his Alan Smithee his autobiographer.

He fell out with the Guardian Newspaper.

And now he's fallen out with Dreamworks.

Peter Higgs was awarded the Companion of Honour but he was the exception to the rule, Scientists and Engineers are routinely ignored in favour of those with a large media profile such as Sports stars and Fashion designers.

This was predicatable; they should adopt the same strategy as that used in the McLibel Trial.

http://www.mcspotlight.org/case/

35,000 employees
2 minutes per empoloyee to review the reply
$20 estimated US office salary per hour.
= 23k USD per "Incident"

It is the people that hit reply all that are a complete waste of a paycheck.

However it contains a lot of common sense and most is applicable accross jurisdictions.

http://www.out-law.com/page-5536

The government will be bought and paid for by ...

1) Old Media
2) New Media

Submerge chopped or crushed chillis in a container with vegetable oil. Leave for a minimum of 4 weeks but the longer the better.

Use the infused oil as the starting point for cooking your base.

BBC Radio 4 PM probably the most respected News Programme in the one UK ran a feature on that video.

Practically everything we've been told about it is false.

The author thinks Basic and DBase are the technology milestone to be marvelled at and a book on "compiler theory" is all kinds of nonsense. Text book example of Dunning Kruger effect at work.