[begueradj]

> It's like hiring a plumber then trying to tell them how to fix the toilet.

I never faced or witnessed that in software dev.

[theshrike79]

I once had to give my non-technical boss Frontpage and told him to make the fucking login page himself because nothing I did matched his exact wishes.

The result was a piece of shit, but it was his piece of shit and he loved it.

[DANmode]

This is an awesome comment.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it definitely rhymes – I can’t wait for the modern versions of this.

[satisfice]

Us testers have been dealing with that crap forever. Every non-tester thinks they know how a professional tester should work, and imagines our work is just writing test cases.

[begueradj]

By non testers, do you mean developers/UI designers and such ?

[technion]

There are multiple stories of public facing applications with Microsoft active directory as the source of user accounts that speak to the worst examples of this.

I was involved in such an attempt but it never got off the ground.

[j45]

If you haven't faced or witnessed it, it is a moment that you will not forget, and then over time little by little, realize it might not be so uncommon.

We don't have to seek it out, it finds us.