Shulou(Shulou.com)06/03 Report--

If it was a relatively easy thing to get into the testing circle a few years ago, you will find that the situation has quietly changed in the past two years. For a qualified test engineer, the ability to master one or more Coding has become an indisputable fact.

Although for Tester, the business characteristics of software also need to focus on, but as a member of the software industry, a mature Tester should pay attention to the development trend of the industry. The current development of the domestic software industry has actually been dominated by the Internet / mobile Internet, that is, we will default that the industry demand of the Internet / mobile Internet is the industrial demand. Briefly analyze the current situation of domestic Internet / mobile Internet companies, seize the market segment of users against the clock, quickly get users' attention, and then increase user adhesion through content, and so on a series of market demand, has become the ultimate demand to influence or even make decisions on the action direction of every department and post of the whole company!

For the R & D department, a series of means and methods to emphasize efficiency, such as rapid iteration, agile development, Debops and so on, are constantly proposed, and practitioners in a series of positions such as development, testing, design and so on have to use both hands and feet and are overwhelmed.

As to whether the current situation of this industry is reasonable and rational, we will not discuss it for the time being. What we want to see is that in this situation, every IT technician should have the ability to change. As the technical support of Tester, we are not the main output in the whole R & D team, testing software to ensure quality is our work. But many current testing practitioners will mistakenly think that when testing software (mainly in the functional testing phase), they do not need to know much about the code, as long as they understand the business. Today, such an idea will obviously be out of date.

The concept of software engineering actually comes from the construction industry. So we can find almost all the corresponding construction jobs in the software development team (at this level, call developers "programmers" without wronging them at all. Manual smiley face. Then the testers and the engineering quality inspectors in the construction industry actually do the same thing! However, we need to be clear that as a qualified project quality inspector in the construction industry, we need to work with construction workers in the early stage to engage in front-line construction work. What is the purpose? It is to make the quality inspectors clear that the working process and working methods of the construction workers, at best, is to better detect the problems that may arise in the future project. To go deeper, don't let those migrant workers who build houses be fooled and don't know what's going on! By the same token, if testers want to do their job better, take the initiative to understand the working process of developers, master several commonly used Code, read code and then write code, it is really beneficial and harmless in their work.

The blogger himself transferred from development to testing, but he didn't often mention this experience in his later work, so when some developers told me that the defect could not be changed, that the defect was a problem with IE, etc., normally I would quietly send him the code that fixed the defect.

With the increasing iterative frequency of product development, testers, whether they are performing manual functional testing, automated testing, or performance testing, more or less need testers to have Coding capabilities. So break away from development and talk about testing, that is to play hooligans!

As for a non-traditional IT background of Tester, how to open their own code learning road, we will talk about it next time.

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