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I wish our test team was like that. Ours would respond with something like “How would I test this?”
Programmer should have written all the test cases, and I just run the batches, and print out where their cases failed.
Ewww, no. The programmer should have run their unit tests, maybe even told you about them. You should be testing for edge cases not covered by the unit tests at a minimum and replicating the unit tests if they don't appear to be very thorough.
I think that the main difference is that developers tend to test for success (i.e. does it work as defined) and that testers should also test that it doesn’t fail when a user gets hold of it.