Slapped in the face: there are so many testers in a certain department of byte

Table of Contents

Foreword

So what are the test students in the byte department doing?

Conclusion

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Foreword

I have said some personal opinions before, to the effect that some departments of Byte are promoting de-testing. At that time, some students left a message saying that there are actually many students who tested in some departments of Byte. As expected, I followed a letter yesterday.The candidate chatted with the festival, and the candidate said that in his department, there are indeed many test students.

He said that his department's tests are mainly composed of two types of students, namely formal and outsourced. The ratio of formal employees to outsourcing is 1:2, and the entire department has a test scale of several hundred people.

Due to time constraints, I didn't know whether all these hundreds of employees were regular employees or outsourced employees, and I didn't know how many employees there were in their department, but from the perspective of a single product, these hundreds of employeesis still relatively large.

Combining this information, we can know that the de-testing progress of large companies is not uniform for the entire company. Some departments may be more aggressive, while others are conservative. The number of testing students is large, but it may be mainly outsourcing.For example, many years ago, the number of testers in the mobile QQ team was very large, but the number of formal employees was actually limited. Most of the functional tests were outsourced to students, and Huawei was similar.

So what are the test students in the byte department doing?

Candidates indicated to explore in 4 areas.

• Quality dimension.Responsible for product quality assurance, everyone is familiar with this;
• Security dimension.Responsible for product safety testing and various safety constructions. In fact, the candidate also said that the safety here may not be accurate enough. In fact, it should be a variety of special dimensions, such as performance stability and the like, and will not be limited to safety;
• Experience dimension.Here is the most interesting, we can think about it, what are the factors that affect the user experience?Is it the opening speed of the application, the accuracy of the content pushed to you, etc.?The experience here is to quantify the indicators that can affect the user experience, and then continuously monitor the indicators to ensure that the value of the indicators continues to meet the standards; for example, continuously monitor the app crash rate, once it exceeds a certain threshold, an alarm is issued, and then emergency positioning and repair;
• Efficiency dimension.Improve testing efficiency through tools or other activities.This can be understood as the part of partial test development, such as developing test tools to improve the efficiency of automated regression;

So to sum up, the keywords of the test students in the byte department are actually: quality + special projects + experience + efficiency, there are actually a lot of activities on the quality side that outsourced students can undertake, other parts are more professional, and it may be better to do team building by yourself.

In short, different departments of the same company may have different attitudes towards testing. The de-testing of Tencent discussed earlier is also a bg of Tencent, which may not necessarily be the behavior of the entire company.

In addition, de-testing does not mean that no testing is required at all, but that some necessary testing work before is done in some lower-cost ways, such as outsourcing.In addition, improving test efficiency, on the other hand, is reducing the cost of testing. Does it feel a bit rolled up?Want to reverse the involution?Byte's test classmates actually provided us with a good idea, which is to change the track.At present, there are 4 tracks in the byte test, and in addition to the quality track, the other tracks are actually very professional, so maybe in the future, the test will be more and more detailed and professional.The stronger it is, the more tracks there are.Being a specialist on a certain track or a generalist on most tracks is a good way to reverse involution.

Conclusion

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