Well, there's the right way, the wrong way, the company way, the manufacturer's way, the test pilot's way, and the Captain's way. The Captain is always right, right?!
Anyway, between myself, Rainboe, and numerous other Captains on here, we probably have over a million hours of experience compared to a few hundred hours that "test pilots" have.
Boeing said the tail of their 737s could not ice. That was an outright dumb lie.