In Looking Good, Testers! I made the case that testing is about looking and that delegating the looking to someone or something else involves a risk calculation: do you both understand the task the same way, is the third party likely to carry out the task in the way you requested, how easily can you check any results they give back, could they complement you in some way, how will you keep your knowledge and skills up to date if you don't do this task any more, how much does this task matter, how much do you care about any of that, ...? I didn't say anything there about selecting what to look at or for ... and I'm not going to talk about it here either because it's essentially the whole of testing. I will note one thing, though: to find things other people don't find, look where other people don't look . What I do want to cover here is looking at things that, arguably, you don't need to. My team was recently asked to add a new layer to a service we ow...