Recommend reading "Testers: Get Out of the Quality Assurance Business"
We used to think about we as tester are some kind of gatekeeper for the product, and we are quality assurance (QA) people. In his blog http://www.developsense.com/blog/2010/05/testers-get-out-of-the-quality-assurance-business/ , Michael Botlon argue that we as tester has less control or influnce on the quality of the project than developer or a PM.


