What is the future of software testing? How to learn?

In countries with more developed software industry , The software testing industry has taken shape , Relatively developed , Software testing has not only become an important part of software development , And it occupies a considerable proportion in the system engineering of the whole software development . Within Microsoft , The ratio of software testers to software developers is generally 1.5∶1 To 2.5∶1 about , That is, behind a developer , At least two testers are working , To ensure the quality of software products 1. Foreign excellent software development institutions put 40% My work is spent on software testing , The cost of software testing accounts for... Of the total cost of software development 30% to 50%, For some applications that require high reliability 、 High security software , The cost of testing is even equivalent to... Of all the costs of the development of the whole software project 3 to 5 times .

China's software testing industry started late , Slow development , until 21 At the beginning of the century , China has gradually begun to pay attention to the software testing industry . But in recent years , The rapid development of software industry provides a good foundation for the development of software testing industry , With the development of software testing industry in China , The large-scale development of enterprises in the industry will obtain scale effect , It can effectively reduce the unit cost of enterprises ; The continuous development of software testing technology , It will also eliminate those enterprises with weak technical strength , Promote the development of enterprises in the industry in the direction of specialization . In recent years, the market scale of China's software testing industry has grown steadily , Up to 2021 In, the market scale of China's software testing industry reached 2347 One hundred million yuan , Year-on-year growth 18%.

From the perspective of development , Because China's software testing industry started late , Therefore, there are a large number of enterprises with weak technical and financial strength . With the development of software testing industry in China , The large-scale development of enterprises in the industry will obtain scale effect , It can effectively reduce the unit cost of enterprises ; The continuous development of software testing technology , It will also eliminate those enterprises with weak technical strength , Promote the development of enterprises in the industry in the direction of specialization .

One 、 2022 Analysis on the development trend of China's software testing industry in

From the perspective of the independence of the software testing department of domestic software companies , Most software enterprises do not have a special testing technology department , The software test program is not very standard , Most companies don't know how to test , Too little investment in testing . Most of them are after simple tests , I think there is no problem , It's up to the user , Let users go to “ test ”; therefore , Software products are released without rigorous testing ; For domestic consumer software , It often occurs that some products that have been put on the market are found to have serious defects, resulting in a large number of returns ; Customized industry software , Repeated rework often occurs 、 The phenomenon of indefinite modification and maintenance .

Chart ： Software testing department settings of software industry companies

As China's IT The development of the software industry and the continuous maturity of the software market , People's expectations of software functions are also gradually increasing , People often pay attention to ： The performance of the software 、 Reliability and, most importantly, quality . Almost every large and medium-sized enterprise's products need a lot of quality control before release . Testing and documentation work . however , At present, there are still serious deficiencies in the field of product function and performance testing in China's software industry , Chinese software companies are beginning to realize , The breadth and depth of software testing determine the future and destiny of Chinese software enterprises . At present, the domestic software testing industry mainly has the following problems ：

① Software is getting bigger and bigger , More and more complex functions , How to conduct adequate and effective testing has become a difficult problem ;

② Object oriented development technology is becoming more and more popular , But object-oriented testing technology has just started ;

③ It is difficult to test the overall performance of the distributed system ;

④ Lack of effective testing means for real-time systems ;

⑤ With the increasingly prominent security problems , How to effectively test and evaluate the security of information system , Become a worldwide problem ;

⑥ The degree of automation of testing is not high , Too many manual tests , Automated testing tools and manual testers also lack a good combination ;

⑦ Lack of awareness of software testing 、 We don't pay enough attention to it ;

⑧ The test will be carried out after the software development is basically completed , There is also a lack of unified standards for software testing ;

⑨ The mechanism of colleges and universities from teacher reserve to specialty setting to talent training is weak .

Two 、 2022 Analysis on the development characteristics of China's software testing industry in

One 、 Develop rapidly

In today's rapidly developing information society , People pay more and more attention to computer and electronic technology , The computer industry represented by software is developing in a blowout trend . Software testing has been paid great attention by many scientific research institutions and enterprises , China's software testing industry is developing rapidly .

 

Two 、 There is a big talent gap

Software testing industry takes talents as the cornerstone of survival and development . With the vigorous development of information industry and the continuous maturity of software market , People's expectations of software products are increasing , Quality of software 、 performance 、 Reliability and other aspects are paid more and more attention by the industry , As an emerging aristocrat in the software industry, software testing has developed rapidly , The demand for professional software testing talents is rising rapidly .

According to recruitment website statistics , More than 150 Of the 10000 software practitioners , No more than... Can take on software testing positions 10 ten thousand people , have 3-5 More than years of working experience is even less 5 ten thousand people , The number and ability of software test engineers in short supply are also relatively weak , Not as good as abroad .

meanwhile , At home 30 The demand gap for software testing talents is increasing every year 20% Increasing speed of . Test engineers are becoming essential technical talents in software development enterprises . However , Because the domestic software industry has a late understanding of the important role of software quality control , A systematic software testing talent demand supply chain has not yet been formed , This has caused an embarrassing situation that software testing talents are hard to find .

3、 ... and 、 How to standardize the learning route if you want to enter the industry ？

First, self-study , Now, although learning materials can be collected through various channels , however , Self study is not suitable for everyone , The only advantage of self-study is to save money , Time is also more free .

Self study cannot gain real project experience , There are many kinds of information on the Internet , Not to mention useless, as an introductory learning software test is still enough , But the most important project experience , But you can't get it online , Missing this link , It's very difficult to find a job later .

Second, training , Compared with self-study , In addition to the high cost of training institutions , There are basically no other disadvantages , It saves a lot of trouble .

Training institutions themselves are employment oriented , Therefore, the curriculum system is updated and set up to keep up with the current technological needs of enterprises .

The training institution has professional technical teachers to answer questions and solve doubts in the learning process , Including the final stage of employment , There are also resumes on employment 、 Interview guidance and employment recommendation , From enrollment to entry , With one .