Do not write tests for your code!

I am of the opinion that developers should not write test for their own code. The reason is that the tests just test that the production code does what it does -- not necessarily that it does the right thing. That is, the tests just "mirrors" the production code. In fact, the test can actually test the wrong thing entirely!

On the other hand, if someone else writes the tests, then he/she does not know any details about the implementation, thus the tests do not mirror the production code.

Of course, there are problems with this... how does the tester know what the code is supposed to do? Good documentation? The trouble is that the documentation will (probably) describe what the code does, not what it is supposed to do. Why? Because it (probably) written after the code. Also, to use an understatement: documentation is boring.

The point I'm trying to make is that it is very hard to express what a piece of code is supposed to do when that code is already written. Unless, of course, there are a few test-cases for that piece of code. To my experience, test-cases describe what code is supposed to do very accurately.

Ok, I think you get where I'm going with this so I'm just going to cut to the chase. I hope you are of the opinion, like me, that developers should not write test for their own code. They should, however, write code passing their tests.