What is the future of software testing industry? Listen to the test veterans' answers

I've been in the testing industry for 5 Years. , Although not for a long time , But also found out the way in the testing industry ！

that , The salary of the test position 、 What are the employment prospects ？
As can be seen from the trend chart , Even junior test engineer , Salary can also be achieved in first tier cities 7k. And the longer it takes , The salary will be higher . So why does the company spend a lot of money to recruit software testing positions . Explain that the testing industry is IT There is a demand for a position in the industry , It is of certain importance in the social market .

What is the current employment form of software testing ？

There is a big talent gap

At present, almost every large and medium-sized IT Enterprise software products need a lot of quality control before release 、 Testing and documentation work , And these jobs must be completed by professional software talents with skilled technology . Software test engineer is such an important role in the enterprise . Industry analysis , The demand for such positions is mainly concentrated in developed coastal cities , Among them, the demand of Beijing and Shanghai accounts for 33% and 29%. Private enterprises are in greater demand , Of total demand 19%, The demand of wholly foreign-owned European and American enterprises ranks second , Occupy 15%.

However , The status quo is ： On the one hand, enterprises have a growing demand for high-quality test engineers , On the other hand, the original domestic professional emphasis on test engineers is not enough , Many people don't understand what the test engineer is engaged in . Because Chinese enterprises have a late understanding of software testing technology , Therefore, professional and technical personnel in this field are still scarce in China . According to the survey , At present, the gap of Software Testing Talents in China has reached 30 ten thousand , China's software industry adds about 20 Ten thousand jobs , But the business 、 The software testing talents trained by the school are insufficient 1/10, And the gap between demand and supply is still widening .

therefore , At present, the employment prospect of software testing industry is still considerable . That is to say , Large market demand ！

So how can I become a junior test engineer , What is its work content ？ Novices are not easy to get started ？

Software testing is divided into manual testing and automatic testing . Manually tested 6 What's the big job ？

1、 Read the system requirements document （ Understand the software function , What is right ）

2、 Test plan work task scheduling

Excel Form making
According to the functional modules in the requirements document
Start time and end time of each work
scheduling
3、 The test case

Test according to the test scope assigned to you
Describe the steps of your operation in the form of documents or words
4、 The test execution

According to the test case , One by one
Find out Bug（ Open source software , Most use Zen ）

5、 Test report （ Make an evaluation and summary of software quality ）

6、 regression testing （ For the problems found in the previous test , After development and repair , One more test ）

The content of software testing is not difficult to do , And for junior test engineers, there is no need to master the code . therefore , Easier to use , There are also more people willing to switch to this position .

Share with you from your own experience , Software testing post The more experience, the more popular .

The reason is that the more experienced the software test engineer is, the more popular it is , Because the longer you work, the more project experience you accumulate , In the test, you will be more sensitive to find the... In the software bug. therefore , The salary of software test engineers will continue to increase with the increase of working years .

And the salary is high and the promotion space is large .

From requirement analysis to product development to product maintenance , Can't do without software testing . However, the importance of software testing has only been fully recognized in recent two years , Higher education and enterprise training have not kept up , As a result, software testing talents are seriously in short supply , There's running 、 A state of rapid ascension , Wages are also rising , The annual salary of excellent software testing talents can reach 100000 , Even two 、 300000 or more .

Now, as long as you have the ability , An era that will not be buried . We learned software testing well , Their career prospects are certainly not bad , Your future must be limitless . Therefore, we don't need to worry about the development prospect and future of software testing

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