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Careers and Trends in Software testing
Excellence in Testing
October 30, 2007
PureTesting offers end-to-end testing solutions. Our offerings include—Test Consulting, Testing Services, Test Trainings, and SDLC Products. PureTesting is recognized as a Testing Thought Leader—Our people work on Innovative concepts, write white papers, and present concepts at international forums.
PureTesting's unique value proposition of offering better, faster, less expensive testing solutions is compelling to our clients in India, Europe, New Zealand, and US who regard us as a long-term testing partner. The domains in which PureTesting has expertise are: Banking & Financial Services, Datacom and Telecom, Pharmaceuticals, Embedded Systems, eLearning, EAI, ISVs.
PureTesting was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in NOIDA (near Delhi), India with offices in Texas, USA; London, UK; and Auckland, New Zealand.
The author, Vipul Kochar is a co-founder of PureTesting. Hel has over 12 years of testing experience and is also the founder of www.whatistesting.com, a popular testing portal.
Prior to PureTesting Vipul worked at Adobe Systems India Pvt. Ltd. where he managed the testing of Adobe Reader (formerly known as Adobe Acrobat Reader) on Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX and Handheld platforms. Vipul has won several awards including Logica CMG Triple Star Award for most original contribution at EuroStar 2005, Denmark. Vipul is a regular speaker at QAI International Conference, CONQUEST, World Conference on Quality etc. He is also the President of Indian Testing Board, member of ISTQB. Vipul holds a MS in Computer Engineering from IIT, Delhi.
Contact Information:
A-108B, Sector 58, NOIDA (UP) 201 301
India
Tel: +91 (120) 4324426, 4324427, 4311262
Fax: +91 (120) 4316115
Email: info@puretesting.com sales@puretesting.com
What Are We Going to Talk About?
• Testing trends and testing as a career choice
• Innovation
• Testing excellence
• Personal excellence in testing
Software Testing: Past, Present and Future
Trends
Testing Trends (India)
• Pre-boom days (early 90s)
• What is testing?
• Boom days (late 90s-2001)
• I know what testing is but who wants to go there?
• Post boom days (2001-2002)
• An interesting career choice (I don’t have any other job)
• New-boom days (2002/2003-?)
• I am proud to be a software tester
Testing Trends
• In the past “those who can, develop and others test”
• Individuals thought of testing as
• A job for non-technical persons
• A punishment post
• A career path that would lead nowhere
• Companies thought of testing as
• Who needs testing?
• It is so simple, anybody can do it
• A separate testing team! You must be out of your mind
Testing Trends
• Coming of age
• Testing is recognized as a specialized skill
• A necessary and continuous activity throughout SDLC
• Independent V&V teams are becoming the norm
• Testing is a lucrative career
• Testing requires technical skills including coding skills (at times)
Testing Trends: Management
• Management is more conscious of need for testing
• Management would like better way to look at “status”
• Management would like to understand the “quality” of testing
• Management would not want simple “we are done” answer
Testing Trends: Processes
• (Some) People are fed up with heavy processes
• Lightweight models
• XP
• SCRUM
• (Some) People are fed up with development centric process models
• CMM
• ISO
• CMMi
• Testers want (?)
• TMM
• TPI…….
Testing Trends: Testing in development
• Developers are realizing importance of testing
• Unit testing frameworks such as CPPUnit, JUnit, HTTPUnit…
• Test driven development
• Test are written first and code written later
• Unit Testing frameworks are used/developed
Testing Trends: Test Engineering
• Testers who write code
OR
• Developers who write code for testing
• Hottest trend
• Not many people in this area
• Requires extensive coding and architecture skills to create frameworks that endure
• Requires understanding of needs of the testers
Testing Trends: System Testing
• Role of system testing in Agile methods is still evolving
• Traditional model of testing is no longer considered sacrosanct
• (only) Scripted testing is not the right method
• Requirements based testing is not the only way to do testing
• Requirements are seldom complete
• Requirements are seldom true to users
• Requirements are seldom correctly prioritized
• Exploratory testing has broken some of the myths
• Simultaneous test design and execution
• No writing of test cases “as soon as requirements are available”
• Reuse of test cases using things like Q-Patterns
Testing Trends: Automation
• More automation is happening
• Not necessarily in the right direction
• More people understand how to automate
• Data driven and key word driven
• More people understand that automation is not the way in many cases
• Tools
• Lifecycle tools
• Requirements traceability
• Test design tools
• Test case management tools
• Test execution tools
• Stress, performance tools
• Defect management tools
• IDE for testers
Testing Trends: Domain knowledge
• As more testing gets done at Unit level, need for higher level testing at the system level increases.
• This requires more domain knowledge and system testing knowledge.
Innovation
• The classic definitions of innovation include:
• the process of making improvements by introducing something new
• the act of introducing something new: something newly introduced
(The American Heritage Dictionary).
Source: Wikipedia
• What are the innovations in testing you have come across?
• Are these incremental or breakthrough/radical
• What are you doing about innovation in
• Testing processes
• Testing techniques/design
• Automation
• Anything else…
Testing Excellence
• What is excellence in testing?
• Is it finding all the bugs? All the critical bugs?
• Is it conformance to requirements/standards?
• Is it breaking the software?
• Is it excellence in system testing only?
Automation?
What is personal excellence in testing?
• What are various skills required to excel?
• Ability to find critical bugs quickly?
• Ability to understand markets and users?
• Ability to understand technology
• Communication?
• Team work?
• What are you doing about it?
Have you mapped your career path or is it driven only by accidents?
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