After three years of software testing at Tencent, I was ruthlessly dismissed in July, trying to wake up my brother who was paddling

Some time ago , A friend who has been working in a large factory for several years to do software testing , In nearly 30 了 , But it was regarded as “ Personnel optimization ” The name of is mercilessly dismissed , According to him , One month, I had several meals to break up ……

In many enterprises , There are KPI Assessment of , And then on this basis, I'll make a “ Take out ”( Or call it “ Personnel optimization ”).

The cruel situation of the Internet factory is here , Unavoidable , In order to help friends change jobs and interview 、 A promotion and pay increase 、 Career dilemma , Improve your technology , Escape “ Personnel optimization ” The key to success .

this 5 Completed a promotion between , Changed company , I had a happy time , There have been days of confusion and struggle , But it's a smooth transition from a rookie to a senior rower .

In the process , Summed up some of the practical experience of rowing , Some of them have been learned by themselves , Some are learned by communicating with others , Let me share with you .

One 、 Learn to think deeply , Summarize the precipitation

The first thing I want to say is to learn to think deeply , Summarize the precipitation , This is what I think is the most important and meaningful thing .

Let's start by thinking deeply . In the circle of programmers , You can often hear some remarks ： I have no skill in this job , Every day Dot , this TM What can I learn ? Put aside some of the banter and banter , This may be the real idea of some students , At least once I was , I think so . Later, with the accumulation of work experience , Plus some high level After the exchange and discussion of the students , I find that this idea is actually very wrong .

The reason why there is such a view that there is nothing to learn from , It's basically the result of lazy thinking . Any little thing that seems so insignificant , Just think deeply , Dig a little bit vertically or widen it horizontally , It's a sea of knowledge enough to drown people .

** Let's talk about the summary precipitation .** This, I think, is the lack of most programmers , Just concentrate on your work , You can do one thing well . But it's almost never an abstract summary , I've been working for years , What I have learned is still sporadic , It's not systematic , Not only is it easy to forget , And it makes my vision narrow , The problem is limited .

It's important to make some summary and precipitation in time , It's a process from technique to Tao , Will let oneself see the question from a wider angle , Higher level . Problems of the same type , We can follow a good methodology , systematic 、 Promote and solve the problem hierarchically .

For example . Do backstage service , Today we optimized 1G Memory , Tomorrow optimized 50% It takes time to read and write , Is it possible to summarize the performance optimization ?

For example, in the application layer , Applications that can manage service docking , Sort out the rationality of their visit ; At the architecture level , You can do caching 、 Preprocessing 、 Read / write separation 、 asynchronous 、 Parallelism and so on ; At the code level , There's more to be done , Pooling resources 、 object reuse 、 Unlocked design 、 Big key Split 、 Delays in processing 、 Code compression 、gc Tuning also has a variety of language related high-performance practices … The next time you encounter a scenario that needs performance optimization , A whole set of ideas can be applied immediately , All that's left is tools and practice .

Some students said , I'm just following PM Tear and tear , Do what you need , No performance optimization . Let's not discuss whether we can do performance optimization , Just in terms of business requirements , There are also places to sum up . for instance , How to do system construction ? Core capabilities of the system , System boundary , System bottlenecks , Service layered split , Have you thought about service governance ? Follow... Every day PM Discuss requirements , How to cultivate product thinking as a technical student , Lead the product to , How to make architecture ahead of business , These problems can also be considered and summarized

So learning and growing is a self driving process , If there's nothing to learn , Maybe the rate is not really nothing to learn , It's because I'm too lazy , It's not just laziness in action , I'm too lazy in thinking .

You can write more technical articles , Share more , Force yourself to think and summarize , After all, if the article is not deep enough , I'm sorry to share it publicly .

Two 、 Study actively , Maintain technical enthusiasm

In the last two years, a kind of anxiety theory widely spread in the Internet circle is called 35 The age-old programmer phenomenon , The main idea is that the programmer industry can do 35 I'm almost ready to be laid off at the age of 18 . Undeniable? , The Internet industry is not as good at this point as civil servants and other institutions . But in this question 35 The age of a programmer is not absolutely physiological 35 year , Programmers who have worked for more than ten years and worked for two or three years are no different . The rest of the work is basically to eat the old money , No active learning and charging ,35 Age and 25 I'm about the age of , And no more 25 The desire to learn and grow when I was old , On the contrary, it adds a lot of trivia of family life , Pay requirements are often higher , In the eyes of enterprises, it is really not competitive .

And if we learn actively , Keep the technical capability 、 Knowledge reserves are directly proportional to years of service , Here we are 35 What's the anxiety at the age of , I think it's the big companies that are fighting for it ? But learning this thing , It's actually an anti human process , This requires us to force ourselves out of our comfort zone , Active learning , Maintain technical enthusiasm . In Didi, there is a sentence about , Jump out of your comfort zone , When you feel struggling and stressed , It's often the darkness before dawn , That's the fastest growing time . On the contrary, if you feel comfortable every day , Work is just a long time , Maybe it's really boiling frogs in warm water .

Just after graduation , I often have more free time , It's a good time to work hard on Technology . Take advantage of this time to lay a solid foundation , Develop good study habits , Keep a positive attitude towards learning , It should be beneficial for life . As for how to learn efficiently , There are a lot of big cattle writing such posts on the Internet , After arriving at the company, the Intranet can also find a lot of such sharing , I won't talk much about .

3、 ... and 、 Take the initiative , Communicate feedback in a timely manner

The first two are from a personal point of view , I hope you can improve your personal ability , Keep the core competitiveness , But from a company perspective , The company recruits employees , The most important thing is to let employees create business value , Serving the company .

Although there is a certain training system for school enrollment , But in fact, the company has no obligation to help us grow . And in being able to do things for the company , On the point of creating value , I think the two most important words are initiative , Take the initiative , Active communication , Actively promote the progress of the project , Actively coordinate resources , Take the initiative to feed back , Actively create influence and so on .

When I first started , Basically is leader Do your job well as you are assigned , And then I did my own business , Almost never take the initiative to communicate with others or to think about ideas that can help the project develop . I think I can finish my job with quality and quantity , It turns out that this is not enough , It's just a basic requirement .

And some students do it by leader Just synchronize what you're going to do recently , The following series of things are basically unnecessary leader Worry about it , I am such a classmate leader I like it, too . A word often heard after entry is called owner consciousness , That's probably what it means .

In the process , In addition, it is very important to communicate feedback in a timely manner . The project is not going well , What's the problem , Keep up with leader Sync , If you are not sure about the technical solution, you can follow leader discuss , Some resources can't be coordinated leader Help , Don't worry too much about , Think it's going to be too much trouble ,leader Actually, it's about this thing .

If the project goes well , There's no need to leader intervention , It also needs to keep the project schedule in time , Timely feedback on the benefits achieved , I also put forward my own ideas to discuss , ask leader Suggestions for current progress , What else needs to be improved , Eliminate information errors . To do these things is to make good use of leader Various resources , On the other hand, it can also make leader Understand your workload , Control the whole project , After all leader Also have leader, It's also a report .

Maybe it's the upward management that people dislike , There's something in it , Actually, I didn't do it well . But the basic point is , Don't take on a task, work in a stuffy head, or even isolated from the world , I haven't followed... For a month leader Synchronized , Think of a big trick or something , It's basically cool .

Be sure to take the initiative , You can start by forcing yourself to speak in public , Have questions or ideas in time one-one.

Four 、 A set of good materials for systematic learning

Finally, we need a set of good materials for system improvement to improve our comprehensive technical ability !

As a tester , I'd like to share with you all these years , I want to sum up the technology , Share your notes on the skills you need to master as an advanced automation Tester , I hope to help friends who want to go all the way on the road of Technology ！

The content involves the ： Test theory 、Linux Basics 、MySQL Basics 、Web test 、 The interface test 、App test 、 Management tools 、Python Basics 、Selenium relevant 、 Performance testing 、LordRunner Correlation, etc
As a passer-by, I also hope you will take fewer detours , Here I'd like to share some route resources for advanced automated testing , Hope to help you better break through yourself

One 、 Fundamentals of testing

Understand the basics of testing , Master the use of mainstream defect management tools , Proficient in the operation and maintenance of test environment

Two 、Linux You're supposed to know

Linux As the most popular software environment system now , It must be mastered , The current recruitment requirements need to have Linux Ability .

3、 ... and 、Shell Script

master Shell Script ： Include Shell Foundation and Application 、Shell Logic control 、Shell Logical functions

Four 、 The principles of the Internet

The only way for Automation ： Basic knowledge of front-end development and essential knowledge of Internet network 、 The principles of the Internet

5、 ... and 、MySQL database

Software test engineer must MySQL Database knowledge , It's not just about basic “ Additions and deletions ”.

6、 ... and 、 Caught tools

Fiddler,Wireshark,Sniffer,Tcpdump Various bag capturing tools are suitable for various projects , There's always one for you

7、 ... and 、 Interface testing tool

Interface test artifact , Powerful tools you can't get around ：Jmeter. Small and flexible ：Postman

8、 ... and 、Web automated testing Java&Python

Understand the purpose of Automation , Have a good command of TestNG&unittest Automation framework , And assertion and log processing

Nine 、 Interface and mobile automation

Professional interface call 、 Test solutions . Build a complete web And interface automation framework ,Appium Overall use

Ten 、 Agile testing &TestOps structure

uncover TestOps The veil of mystery , Continuous integration Jenkins The frame is familiar with the heart

11、 ... and 、 Performance testing & Security testing

The other side of software testing ： Performance testing and security testing , Choose a direction and try to climb the pit ！

These are high value-added knowledge ！

I hope you will follow this learning framework route , Constantly explore and improve , Break through the bottleneck of technology , so to speak , It's a process that's going to kill you , But as long as you get through it . Life will be much easier in the future . It's just that it's hard at the beginning , Just take the first step , You're halfway there , When we look back on this journey after it's finished , You're bound to feel a lot .

These materials , And the automatic test advanced circuit above , It should be the most comprehensive and complete war preparation warehouse for those who want to conduct advanced tests , This warehouse also accompanied me through the most difficult journey , I hope it can help you ！ Everything should be done as soon as possible , Especially in the technology industry , We must improve our technical skills . I hope that's helpful …….

Make good use of every minute and second to learn and improve yourself , No more " don't have time “ To cover up my mental laziness ！ young , Work hard , Give future self an account ！！