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

Incident 1: the Patriot defense system pointed the gun at its own people.

The American Patriot system was first used in the Gulf War to counter the Scud system in Iraq. Although the Patriot system has made numerous exploits in this war and successfully intercepted Scud several times, it has also lost several times in the confrontation. among them, a Patriot exploded in Doha, Saudi Arabia, causing serious damage to itself. Afterwards, analysts concluded that the cause of the accident was that a defect in a software in the Patriot defense system caused the major accident. It was a very small system clock error, but the accumulation could be delayed by 14 hours. As a result, the tracking system lost its accuracy. During the Doha attack, the important moment of the system was delayed by more than 100 hours, so the accident happened.

Event 2: compatibility of Disney's Lion King Game Software

In 1994, the American Disney Company released the Lion King Animation Story, a multimedia game software for children. After a strong promotion by the Disney Company, sales were so hot that the game software almost became a must-buy game for pro-children in the United States that fall. But shortly after the product was sold, the company's customer support department kept calling. Parents and children who could not play the game complained a lot about the defects of the game software. Later, the investigation confirmed that the reason for this serious consequence was that Disney did not correctly test the game software on various PC that had been put on the market. In other words, the compatibility of the game to the software and the hardware environment is not guaranteed. At that time, the software failure damaged Disney's reputation and paid a high price for correcting software defects and failures.

Event 3: performance problems of ticketing system.

Tickets for the second phase of the Olympic Games began to be sold in advance, and the public was very enthusiastic about the Olympic Games. The ticketing website responsible for the tickets received 8 million views per hour and submitted 200000 ticket applications per second, while the call center called in 2 million times an hour. Due to the large number of visitors, the data processing capacity of the ticket sales system is relatively insufficient, resulting in the situation that each ticket sales speed can not log into the system. Although the page of the booking system is constantly refreshed, it always says "system failure, unable to process your request". Due to the large number of bookings exceeding expectations, problems arose shortly after the Olympic ticket office "started work".

The above three examples illustrate the importance of software testing. From the customer's point of view, the quality of the software is more important than the function. For example, if you buy a mobile phone, do you pay more attention to its function or its quality? if you just buy a new mobile phone, you can't use it as soon as you buy it back. What will your mood be like? do you still care that it has many cool functions?

So what is the domestic software testing market like? Is it really hot? Is the salary really as high as it is said on the Internet? Formal attention to software testing in China should be said to be in 2003, we can see that 51testing (Shanghai BoWeifeng Technology Co., Ltd.) has a considerable scale from 2004 to 10 years. From the perspective of domestic companies, only large companies pay more attention to testing, but the degree of standardization is still inferior to that of foreign countries (such as Europe and the United States). Some small companies do not have special testing departments, some are only subordinate to the development department, and some only use one person.

So, in other words,

First, in the next few years, as customers pay more attention to software quality, small companies' testing departments will certainly be established. in other words, there will be more and more requirements for management positions in the testing departments of these companies (it is much easier for testers to move to management positions than software development).

Second, there will be more and more demand for test engineers, especially for automated testing and performance testing. So far, there is not a special website or forum in China for learning and discussing automated testing or performance testing, that is to say, if you have the ability to develop such a website (such as iteye (formerly known as javaeye). At that time, ruby developed such a website because there was no place to discuss Java, and now it is also very large.

Third, and the most important point, testers are relatively relaxed, less tired than developers, and do not have to work late into the night or even all night because of a technical point or function point. The body is the most important. The essence of our work is to enjoy life better, not to work for the sake of work. Don't think that you have too much capital when you are young. In fact, death is not far away from us. No one can predict how much we will live. Recently, I have seen a lot of news and felt a lot. For example, last year, the female master of PricewaterhouseCoopers worked for less than half a year and died of overwork. The 33-year-old female teacher of Fudan University in Shanghai died of overwork. Recently, a 24-year-old graduate student of Wuhan University, when he felt unwell, went to the hospital for an examination. Having died so young, life has only just begun.

People are striving for survival, development and enjoyment. How to work more easily and enjoy life better is the most important thing.

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