Wu Lao: A one-stop development suggestion on testing life--"pick"

the ideal state of personal development path such as below :

Lay the groundwork---> Hardships---> Trial sledgehammer---> Bold---> Stand at the top of the test---> Start a new Challenge Tour

ideally , any person entering an industry is certainly starting from the rookie, after a period of effort to become a beginner, and after a period of effort to become an intermediate player, and after a period of effort to become a master, After a period of effort from the industry into a new industry to continue to start their own life journey.

bad state , into an industry for a long time are still in the beginner stage, start all kinds of confusion, remorse, the days of depression, and then not long to be eliminated, perhaps lucky to be able to do a job it migrant workers, and then to the old is still eliminated.

In addition to the ideal state and bad state, there may be several intermediate states , which I cannot explain. The description of the ideal state is one of the most advantageous state of development for the individual, and the bad state is certainly the most unfavorable one, so we should try our best to follow the development path of the ideal state to finish our career in an industry and avoid the bad state.

From the description of the above two states, I wonder if the reader can see what the core difference is in the description? Ideally I used a total of 4 "hard" keywords to describe the whole segment of the industry career development, and in a bad state of the description but there is no such words. Simply put, in all industries as long as you strive and continue to meet the challenges, the more you are likely to make your career path fit the ideal state.

The following is a brief explanation of the ideal development status I understand in the testing industry:

1 lay a good foundation

We all know that there is no good foundation to build skyscrapers, foundations are like our foundation, skyscrapers are our career development, so the foundation is the decisive factor in what height a person can develop. For my friends, I recommend learning the following courses: A programming language (120,000-line code practice), Data structures and algorithms (50 common algorithms), Linux 50 common commands and basic system management skills, database support (SQL, indexing, design patterns, basic management, Basic tuning techniques), operating system principles, compiler principles, Network principles, HTTP protocols, discrete mathematics, and distributed computing. If these courses have not been studied, we recommend that you learn, if you have learned the solid. This knowledge is usually learned in universities and training institutions, and there are a handful of students who, at home, have access to this knowledge through self-study methods. The core principle of computer program work has not changed much in the last few decades, the computer knowledge mentioned above belongs to this core category, and the testing industry practitioners (including the developers) can learn and apply all kinds of high and new technology only if they know the lowest computer knowledge.

2 hardships

After graduating from college (after graduating from a training institution), most people are going to start their careers as a pure beginner into a variety of companies. Those who are well-founded and lucky enough to start their careers in a giant IT company are systematically trained by the company and have a good mentoring system to help them grow quickly. Those unlucky friends, it is possible to go to a small company, that is, there is no training and no one to take you, only to explore their own, after a long time did not enter the state of work. No matter what kind of company you mentioned above, you need to learn and explore according to the work you are facing. Your company is always someone to help you, you have to find a way to help you to overcome the various acclimatized, some small skill is through some social means to worship the master of the company as a teacher, and through a number of communication, eating and all kinds of team activities to increase and master contact opportunities to find ways to fix them, This allows you to start your career with less effort. Take care of the tutor, the rest is to learn, not much to say, met will not be a way to learn, Baidu search, buy books, watch video, find a tutor to understand so far, and to learn everything as their own blog as their own journey. If you think you can meet a challenge every week and you can handle it, then I congratulate you and you will grow up very fast. If you feel that you rarely encounter challenges and do everything easily, then I would like to remind you that as a novice this situation is very dangerous, because only the challenge can really let you have something to gain, not light of day. If you are successfully challenged for 1 or 2 years, then it is possible to enter the next stage of discipline.

3 Small trial sledgehammer

Compared to the previous phase, this stage is mainly about the opportunity to follow your own independent idea to do the project or bring a small team, of course, it is also related responsibilities. It's nice to be able to do things according to your own ideas, because you don't have to refer to other people's plans to do things, you can fully invoke your thinking ability to identify problems, analyze problems, and solve problems. The success of this stage depends mainly on whether you have successfully completed the project or brought out an elite small team in accordance with your own ideas. This stage emphasizes your ability to think independently, teamwork, and accountability for results.

4 Bold

Refers to you can be completely independent of the testing department, completely independent team and construction team, according to their management ideas to lead the team to complete a variety of test projects, to achieve good results, for the company to cultivate more cattle people, to make more testing tools and testing framework, the overall improvement of the company's product quality. Usually this stage means that you become a test director or a Test manager, relying solely on personal management and technical skills to control the company's testing department.

5 Standing at the top of the test

When the company test number one does not mean that you stand on the top of the test, I refer to the top of the test refers to the test industry to make outstanding contributions to those who will be your years of best practice experience can be transferred to the hands of test peers, to promote the testing industry technology development or test personnel quality improvement. The goal of standing at the top of the test can often be achieved through lectures, books, and outstanding Test teams. In the testing industry if 1% of people can hear about you and feel that you have made a contribution to the industry, then from my point of view you have stood on the top of the test! At this stage, dedication, sharing and innovation are pursued.

6 Start a new challenge Tour

A lifetime of dry tests? If you really like this job, then I have to congratulate you on your finding true love, you can ignore the sixth stage of the content mentioned. If you do not like this profession, before the entry just to support yourself, then you have to carefully plan this stage. Once you've left your familiar test industry, you may be a novice in other industries, and you may want to repeat the process, but these challenges are nothing for those who are good at learning and like new things. I highly encourage you to embark on a new career journey where we come to the world to see more colorful lives, not complacent. If there is a chance to feel the mysteries of other industries, why should we reject them?

when you stand on the top of the test, you should choose another new goal as a new starting point of life, through constant struggle you can meet a lot of like-minded friends, you can meet more interesting stories, can do more things change the world, perhaps one day you will realize the true ideal in your heart!

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Ms. Wu

Late November 17, 2015

Wu Lao: A one-stop development suggestion on testing life--"pick"