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Nowadays, software testing has been paid more and more attention by enterprises, and many people are also involved in software testing. The team of software test engineers is also growing. However, some time ago, I saw a survey report of the testing industry, which pointed out that "at present, the number of testers will not exceed 50,000, the number of qualified testers will not exceed 30,000, and those who have worked for more than five years will not exceed 10,000." So how to become a qualified software test engineer? This is a question that many people are more concerned about, especially the newcomers to the industry want to know the answer to this question.

So how to become a qualified software test engineer?

1. The skill table of software test engineer is as follows.

Statistics from the software testing recruitment information of 2000 well-known enterprises.

2. Have the ability of reverse thinking

I once came into contact with a software testing engineer, did some testing work, and then went back to development work. Asked him why, his answer was that software testing was too difficult. Development is forward thinking, while software testing is reverse thinking, always looking for some strange ways to operate the software. The users of the software are very different, and all kinds of phenomena encountered in the use of the software are also different, so the software test engineers need to have some ability of reverse thinking. Think about what others don't want and test what happens to others. Only in this way can you find more deep-seated Bug in the software. This is the most basic quality of being an excellent software test engineer (in fact, the development engineer should also have the ability of reverse thinking and put some necessary defensive statements in the code to deal with all kinds of error situations. in order to make the software have better fault tolerance).

3. Have keen insight and perseverance

Software test engineers should be good at finding problems, be willing to study and have the spirit of breaking the casserole and asking questions to the end. For the occasional Bug, we must find out the cause and have the determination not to give up until we find the root cause of the problem. In this case, the problem found may be very serious or easily ignored. Carefulness, patience and confidence are the basic qualities of software test engineers.

4. Have the ability of divergent thinking

Software test engineers need to think about problems from many angles, think of all kinds of methods and possibilities, and simulate the use of different users from various angles.

5. Good at communicating with software development engineers

Communication is one of the key skills to be mastered in today's software projects. Software test engineers should be good at communicating with software development engineers. Establish a good relationship between software test engineers and software development engineers, so that software test engineers do not become a thorn in the side of software development engineers, which is very important to improve the quality of the whole software project.

The content of communication mainly includes the following four aspects:

① discusses the requirements and design of software

Through communication, we can better understand the tested software products, so as to minimize the "defects" that are not defects in the testing process, so as to reduce the pressure on software development engineers and the delay to the project.

② reports good software test results

As a software test engineer, finding errors is often the thing that software test engineers are most willing and proud of, but blindly reporting software errors to development engineers will disgust them and reduce the quality and development progress of the whole software. So, as a good software test engineer, when you finish testing a module and there are no serious errors or few errors, you might as well go to the development engineer to tell them the good news. This can deepen the friendship between software test engineers and software development engineers.

③ should not only report defects, but also learn how to help software development engineers locate defects.

As an excellent software testing engineer, it is the most basic requirement to find as many defects as possible. In addition to this skill, if software test engineers can help software development engineers accurately locate and solve problems quickly by analyzing product logs and other methods. In this way, the relationship between the software development engineer and the software test engineer will become harmonious, and the software development engineer will think that the software test engineer is their assistant, not the one who makes trouble for them. In this way, the skills of software test engineers have also been improved.

④ discusses things that have nothing to do with work.

Software test engineers often discuss with software development engineers about things that have nothing to do with work, such as news, anecdotes and family. This can strengthen the degree of tacit understanding between them. Many statistics show that this can better improve the quality of the software.

6. Be good at communicating with leaders

Software test engineers are often the eyes and ears of leaders. According to the software test results of the software test engineer, the leader can understand the product quality of the company and make the right decision. Leaders are generally busy, so software test engineers should learn to summarize the software test results and show them to the leaders in the form of charts so that they can understand the quality of the software at the first time.

7. Master some automated software testing tools and scripts

Software testing is a tedious and boring work. The manual work repeated by software testing engineers for a long time will reduce the efficiency of software testing, and also affect the quality of software testing. And software testing without the use of testing tools is not feasible, such as performance testing. At present, there are many software testing tools to choose from in the market, and companies or individuals can choose some software testing tools to assist the software testing work. In addition, there are many automation tools that require software test engineers to develop some code themselves, so it is also very important to have a certain ability to automate test development. However, keep in mind that with software testing tools, there is no need for manual software testing. Software testing tools are not omnipotent.

8. Good at learning

Software testing techniques are also being updated over time. Software test engineers should be good at using books, websites, forums and communication to continuously improve their knowledge level in all aspects, including business knowledge, software testing knowledge and computer professional knowledge.

9. Improve your expression ability

When a software test engineer finds a defect in the software, he should write a defect report. Defect reports should be written in detail so that software development engineers can locate and correct errors as soon as possible. Therefore, it is very necessary for software test engineers to improve their writing ability.

10. Understand business knowledge

It is important to have a better understanding of the business knowledge of the software being tested. The more you learn about the business, the more you will be able to identify more professional, critical, and hidden mistakes. Therefore, software test engineers need to learn more from experts and peers in this field to improve their business knowledge. It is difficult to learn business knowledge, so software test engineers must be psychologically prepared in this respect.

11. Cultivate interest in software testing

Interest is the best teacher. Treat any work, only full of interest, will invest more energy and time, will achieve twice the result with half the effort.

12. Pursue perfection

For excellent software test engineers, pursue perfection as much as possible and do things to the extreme. Although some things cannot be perfect, you should try.

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