Discussion on career development of the tenth software testing Exchange conference in Guangzhou

PreviousArticleThis paper introduces the experiences of the tenth software testing Exchange conference in Guangzhou (http://www.cnblogs.com/pent/archive/2007/04/04/699801.html). Next, I will talk about my views and questions about the career development of software testing at the conference.

Let's take a look at the career development roadmap for the main exchanges at this meeting. From this figure, we can see that career development in the software testing field is divided into two main directions: technology and management. The technology mainly includes three major technologies: white box testing, automated testing, and performance testing. management mainly includes configuration management, quality assurance, and product manager. I have some questions in my mind from the hot topics at the Exchange conference, mainly about the testing technology and prospects. I hope I can discuss them with you.

1. Technical software testing? Embarrassing Situation of Test Design Technology
In the course of getting started, most software testing engineers will learn an important concept of software testing from books or networks, that is, testing cases. In my impression, all kinds of learning materials undoubtedly claim that the most important and valuable part of software testing is the test case design, test Case Design is a highly technical task. It is the crystallization of the essence and experience of software testing engineers. I have always believed in implementing this guiding ideology. However, from the two surveys I posted on the 51testing test case section: the test case's degree of application in actual work (http://bbs.51testing.com/thread-64815-1-1.html) in actual work, the test case application difficulties Survey (http://bbs.51testing.com/thread-64821-1-2.html) shows that in the actual test work, the test case can not be well applied, which also makes the test engineer confused, it is difficult to claim that the most valuable test cases are actually used. What is the value of the test engineer? Maybe it is another reason for national conditions and development status.

2. system black box testing engineer, where is the road
At present, most of the Software testers have been engaged in the black box testing of the system for less than two years. Most of them have no software development experience. From the two development directions, where should the software testing engineers go. Technical line? White-box testing requires profound development skills. Companies and testers with such standards in China do not have much to estimate, and the threshold for automated testing and performance testing is also high, there are also very few companies dedicated to this position, and everyone is stuck in their spare time to practice. Management class, going to quality assurance, product manager. Are there many jobs and opportunities like this? So, how can we go in the future for system black box testing engineers?

3. Self-improvement in confusion
It seems a little weird.
From the 51testing forum, we can clearly feel that at present, the development direction of everyone's learning is basically the development of technology, mainly in the learning and testing tools, such as qtp, LR, TD, etc, it is a good thing to learn and share. However, in addition to learning, it is recommended to combine it with the development direction. In addition, I would like to mention that many people are very interested in performance testing and are constantly learning this thing. It is indeed very attractive and enjoyable to learn. However, I do not recommend that new testers do this as soon as they come up. After all, the threshold for this is still a bit high. without the support of other basic knowledge, they will be difficult to learn and make little progress, we recommend that you learn from the basics first and step by step.

How long will we wait for the software testing tomorrow?