[stan_rogers]

Ugh indeed. And it's not like this issue hasn't been mentioned a time or two before now. Joel Spolsky in 2000: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000067.html

...and again in 2010: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/01/26.html

...(with more than a couple of other mentions in between). I've worked at ISO 900x shops that worked to the letter of the law, so to speak, without actually understanding what software QA was all about. A really good tester is "chaotic neutral", and the best we can come up with as testers of our own work is "lawful evil".