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by j_baker 5271 days ago
I'm always skeptical of this attitude. It reminds me of politicians who go to the Midwest looking to campaign to "real" Americans, and end up campaigning to no one. The thing is: I know what I want. I have absolutely no clue what anyone else wants. And at the end of the day, I don't buy that I'm that much of a freak. At the end of the day, I want the same thing as anyone else: software that works and is easy to use.

Meanwhile, your new testing framework didn’t make any jobs.

What's your point? Neither did your blogpost.

But if you could say that you really changed ten, what would that feel like?

Ok, now I'm calling shenanigans. You really don't believe my (hypothetical) testing framework can't make 10 peoples' lives better?

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Allot of software that is good and useful to people might actually destroy jobs.

If you create a testing framework that is more robust and simpler than a previous one then it makes testers more efficient so a company needs less of them.

If it can be picked up easily and intuitively then it destroys the jobs of people who sell training on testing frameworks.

Your best hope is that your testing framework makes someone else more efficient at doing something innovative which does create jobs.