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The following is selected from the book "Xiaoqiang Software testing Crazy handout-performance and Automation"

In the twinkling of an eye, it has been in the testing industry for several years, great progress has been made both in terms of technology and the industry itself, and the crisis for test engineers is becoming more and more clear. Once we talk about the crisis, some people may feel that we are making a mountain out of a molehill. In fact, only when we are aware of the crisis with the right attitude can we make better progress and it is wiser to accept it than to reject it.

From my own communication with friends, the crisis of test engineers is mainly concentrated in the following:

1) centralized outsourcing is a trend.

With the development of society and the fierce competition, all companies that do not aim at profit are playing hooligans, and companies are bound to outsource non-core departments or businesses in order to improve profits. Many companies are doing this, such as the well-known Baidu, Sina, Sohu, Sogou, Didi and so on have outsourced some of the testing business. What I'm talking about here is part of the testing business, not all, and the core testing business will not be outsourced. Therefore, when we choose, we can not only look at the salary, if it is non-core, even if you have a high salary, you may lose your job as soon as you sleep.

2) the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead.

I think everyone can understand the meaning of this sentence. The students who graduated from the Xiaoqiang test training class saw that many of the post-90s and friends at the end of the 1980s can earn about 18K a month, which is about 15K on average, and the excellent annual salary can reach 30-400000. Friends with many years of work experience may earn just over 10,000 or less.

The main reason for this situation is that young people do not have any pressure, there are no worries about family, marriage, children, the elderly, and so on, and young people are now more open-minded. understand the truth of spending money to learn some new technologies to improve their ability and competitiveness, so many things are willing to try, and are not afraid of failure. Compared with us "old people", there is a lot of pressure, sometimes they do not dare to try more, they are more willing to go step by step, and they are not willing to spend money and energy to recharge and learn new technologies. Over time, it was surpassed by "rising stars". Personally, I think that life is boring, so why not try it a little bit, which may bring more color to your life and work. And for us "old people", you can never get old at work, you can only boldly invest yourself to make more reserves for the unpredictable future.

3) the birth of APM.

If any of my friends have listened to my audio program "getting kicked", they must be familiar with this concept. Now the more well-known APM in the industry are listening Cloud APM and OneAPM. Why would I say that this is also a crisis for test engineers? it is because APM can lightweight complete monitoring from PC, browser, mobile client to server, location crash, stutter, slow interaction, third-party API call failure, database performance degradation, network quality, poor CDN quality and other complex performance problems, as well as quickly locate code, SQL statements and other complex performance problems. It can greatly reduce the workload of operation and maintenance engineers and performance test engineers. Can you calm down when you see this?

Xiaoqiang classroom APM is an end-to-end application performance management solution, which provides comprehensive and three-dimensional performance monitoring and management services for enterprise users. Unified coverage of websites, networks, databases, servers and other application infrastructure, active intelligent alarm, accurate location and resolution of root causes.

Although there is such a crisis, it does not mean that performance test engineers will lose their jobs or even disappear, but the competitive pressure will increase, the requirements will increase, and pay more attention to your logical analysis skills. It's not that you can write a script or set up an environment. Even if APM can help us locate the problem, the work of verifying the problem, solving the problem, and how to tune it, still requires us to keep trying to find the best solution. It also shows once again that logical thinking and a sound knowledge system are too important for us.

4) the development of open source software.

Ali, Xiaomi, NetEase and many other companies are gradually opening up their own software, and many individual developers are also slowly opening up their own programs, so the development momentum of open source is indeed much better than in previous years. If open source is so good, why does it bring crisis? In fact, it is very easy to understand that with the development of open source, we do not need to build wheels repeatedly, we only need to make minor modifications to apply them, which greatly reduces the cost and threshold. In the case of an automated test engineer, it is entirely possible that you can complete a powerful framework with only a small amount of code in the future.

Although there is a crisis, it does not mean that automated test engineers will lose their jobs or even disappear, because how to integrate these resources and produce a framework that suits you is what you need to do. and what tests you at this time is not the ability of the code but the thought-building ability we mentioned in the first chapter.

5) lazy!

Yes, you read it right, it is this unconcerned factor that may be your biggest crisis. Now you can deliver food, laundry and door-to-door service through various platforms without going out. I can't imagine what it will feel like one day we can do everything at home, when laziness may already fill our body. Are you still willing to study? Are you still willing to be promoted? Maybe it's true. I don't want to.

If there is a crisis, there will be an opportunity. Only when we are correctly and objectively aware of the existence of the crisis, can we be better prepared to deal with them, instead of paralyzing ourselves and daring not to face them squarely. Many great people are not smart but they can see these crises earlier than we do. Let's cheer together.

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