Are there benefits of reading code without being able to write code?

By Toby Sinclair

At the August London Tester Gathering, Alan Parkinson of Hindsight Software [1], gave a great talk on how “Pull Requests can be a tester’s best friend”. During this talk Alan mentioned the benefits of testers “reading code”. This statement seemed to spark some disagreement among those attending. In my experience, I agree with Alan, as a tester I find reading code a valuable source of information to support my testing, after all discovering information is one of our main objectives:

“…your ultimate goal in exploring is to discover information of interest and value to your stakeholders(the people on your team and any others who have vested interest in the information you discover.)” 
Elisabeth Hendrickson – Explore It!

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