What if software testing is too busy to study?

Catalog

1、 Preface ：

2、 Today's topic ：

3、 Pay attention to listening and summarizing

4、 Learn from your boss and colleagues

5、 summary ：

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1、 Preface ：

　 Practitioners in the domestic software testing industry , How many people choose this industry because of interest ？ Some people are because the salary of their original industry is lower than that of the software industry , Then jump into this industry ; Others feel that the threshold of software testing is low , After graduation, if you can't do development, you have no choice but to choose testing ... No matter what the reason for making the choice is , I think the reason why most of us are still doing such a job , It's nothing more than supporting the family . How many people can still maintain their original passion ？ Or how many people can insist on doing some learning and self-improvement ？ During the interview, I often ask candidates , Do you think you are a self-motivated person ？ Everyone will say yes , Then ask again , So what books do you usually read , Or what kind of study have you done ？ Few people answered . I have to sigh .

2、 Today's topic ：

In our software industry , Overtime is normal , You may not have much time left for yourself every day , So in this case, how should we learn ？

　　 What we do everyday , Not much improvement can be brought to us , Because after we become proficient in most jobs , It's all repetitive work , This also determines that we need to learn more actively , To expand our learning objects .

                    

3、 Pay attention to listening and summarizing

First of all, we can learn by attending various meetings of the company , Including regular meetings 、 Technical review meeting 、 Project review meeting, etc , Pay attention to listening and summarizing .

　　 For example, participate in the project review meeting , We can observe how the meeting organizer organizes this meeting （ Such as what they did before the meeting , Why do you do this ）, Know what effect they want to achieve , Observe how people present actively express their views ？ How does the host of the meeting mobilize the enthusiasm of the participants for interaction （ People in the software industry are generally bored , Don't like to talk ）. Or the same use case review meeting , In the course of the meeting, we adopted that method （ Review requirements 、 Use cases are still problems ？）, Which way is more efficient . If you have an idea , Also actively express , You can see if your idea can be supported , Can it be implemented .

　　 Another example is to participate in the technical review meeting , We can learn more technical problems from developers . Development often refers to various architectures , All kinds of technical terms , Like the main library 、 Slave Library 、 table 、 sub-treasury ... If you ask at the meeting what these terms mean , Maybe developers think these terms are too simple to explain . Then record the professional terms , Go to Baidu one by one . Or find someone to explain after the meeting . Sometimes developers don't know anything about testing , The next similar regular meeting will not be called a test . When attending the meeting, remember not to pass by in a fog , In this way, you will lose a good opportunity to improve yourself .

                      

4、 Learn from your boss and colleagues

Meetings with management , Pay more attention to their conversation , See what their concerns are , See what abilities they have , See how they manage the Department and the company on a daily basis , Think about why they can do this job .

　　 In some Internet companies , The boss or president is particularly Nanqing , When you get along with them, you can observe their conversation , Look at their expressions , Their efforts ... How do they communicate the strategy to everyone .--- These bosses have a common characteristic , That is, the ability of speech and communication is particularly strong , You can learn more about this .

　　 In addition to learning by attending various meetings , You can also do more challenging things in your work —— Don't let yourself be particularly comfortable and easy at work , If it has been particularly successful , Then you have not been promoted , I've been repeating myself yesterday .

　 For example, the use case design ability is weak , Usually share your test cases with the Group , Answer their questions , So as to continuously improve the comprehensiveness of our thinking —— This is also one of the core competitiveness of our testers .

　　 For example, self-study Automatic Testing Technology , Try to write an automated framework , Apply to the leader to do something about automation when you have little success , Or do some sharing . Verify your learning achievements through work .

　　 In our daily work , There are really not many challenging things , If it does happen , Just fight for such an opportunity . For example, now the position of a test supervisor is vacant , You can actively apply to the leader , No matter whether the ability reaches , Take up the pit first , Even if it doesn't work , At least express your attitude , In this way, leaders will generally deliberately strengthen your training in the follow-up work . And the position of test supervisor may be difficult in the early stage , But in the medium to long term , There is nothing incompetent .

　　 What's more , Usually with different people , Especially those who have the ability to communicate . For example, communication with product personnel , See how they design products , Why is it designed this way? , What's the benefit of this design , Whether there is corresponding operation and maintenance data support ？

　　 When changing jobs, you can go to some big companies , In addition to the treatment system, large companies are more perfect , More importantly, there are more and better people , Work with big players in these industries , You can also improve yourself faster .

5、 summary ：

　　 We should learn from different people in different meetings , Keep thinking , Keep learning what we don't know , And accept more challenging things at work , Challenge yourself as much as possible , If there is no opportunity for such a challenge , We should make use of eight hours as much as possible to do more study , When there is little achievement , Try to introduce our learning achievements into our work , This is also to verify the results of our spare time study through work practice , Through such day-to-day efforts 、 Thinking and Practice , Let our career reach a new height , The other is , If you have the opportunity to go to a big company , Don't miss it , Because in big companies , You can meet better talents , Learn better knowledge and some valuable experiences from them .

Last thing I want to say , Many people completely want to rely on their own work to improve themselves . In my opinion, this is wrong , Because most jobs don't need too many challenges , If you challenge yourself every day , That means you are not qualified for this position , You can't stay in this company . To survive at ordinary times , Weekend for development . therefore , Or do more self-study and improvement .