If you implement minimal testing practices, you can only expect minimal testing results.

By Ryan Lloyd

Many organizations are motivated to conduct testing and employ test professionals only because testing is a necessary part of software engineering. Acting out of necessity, organizations also tend to lean quite heavily on the de facto standard ways of performing testing activities, often relying on practices that have been in place and unchallenged for years. The problem with testing motivated by necessity and the enforcement of generic practices and standards is that many testing practices simply do not align with modern development methodologies or an organization's culture.