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What is really happening in Testing?
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| Testing 2005-09-15, 7:58 am |
| I would like to know the process in the software company regarding the
testing.What they are doing, from first level to last.Can anyone
explain me in short manner.Im searching jobs in testing.
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| Testing wrote:
> I would like to know the process in the software company regarding the
> testing.
Each company is different, so I will interpret your question as "what's
going on in the Testing industry?"
> What they are doing, from first level to last.Can anyone
> explain me in short manner.Im searching jobs in testing.
Please put a space after each . period.
When you search, make sure you learn very soon which kind of testing a
company does:
- hire non-programmers for manual test
- hire computer operators to run capture/playback tests
- developers debug and testers write unit tests
- developers write tests and testers help
Know which kind they want before sending a resume or talking to them.
In terms of industry trends, the point of testing is to allow programmers to
go faster. So the lower on my list a company operates, the better their
process. When developers implement code via debugging, they lose the
opportunity to exploit tests in a way that mutually reinforce testing and
coding.
Put simply, if they have no tests, they must debug for each bug, and this
wastes time. If they have tests, they can capture most bugs as soon as they
make them, and they can use Undo to get rid of the bug. Undo is faster than
debugging.
So the most effective position for a tester is helping developers write unit
tests, maintaining their test rig, and adding acceptance tests to it.
--
Phlip
[url]http://www.greencheese.org/Z Land[/url] <-- NOT a blog!!!
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| Wolfram Jahn 2005-09-15, 7:04 pm |
| Testing wrote:
> I would like to know the process in the software company regarding the
> testing.What they are doing, from first level to last.Can anyone
> explain me in short manner.Im searching jobs in testing.
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are you kidding? there are tons of huge books about this, shall we copy
them into this newsgroup?
could you please put some more detail in your question?
Wolfram
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