Is the prospect of software testing dead? Has it entered the cold winter?

“ Winds in winter will come ”, This is a game of power （ A song of ice and fire ） Classic lines . Telling the worries about the future , At the same time, it is also a kind of vigilance to yourself ,“ Man without thought , will ”.

from 2018 Year begins , Internet growth rate decreases , Gradually retreat from the air outlet . Enter a normal and stable process .

Before that ：

You can get investment by telling stories casually , Start a business

Everybody's talking about IT, Three hundred and sixty lines , Go ahead IT

Various training institutions , When lying down, students keep coming

Employees , A little experience and technology that can be blown , You can double your job hopping salary

But after the noise , On the feather .

As the Sino US trade war intensifies this year , Huawei, which has a great demand for testing, has tightened its projects .

So-called 5G, The Internet of things , Artificial intelligence And other high-tech concepts have not yet ushered in new opportunities , They are only talking about concepts without producing more valuable practical applications . Many small and medium-sized Internet enterprises fail to find profit points , Unable to support .

IT The industry is bleak , Many companies have laid off staff 、 dissolution . Due to the particularity of the testing work , Maybe you feel stronger . Testing work becomes hard to find , Requirements have also become higher .

Is it winter now ？ Yes or no. ！

The dividends brought by mobile Internet in previous years ,IT The industry has ushered in explosive growth , A large number of manpower poured into the Internet industry . But as the IT When the industry moves towards a more stable development , Supply began to exceed demand .

Every position has become a buyer's market . Because there are more choices , So it's normal to ask for higher . Before that kind of casually fooling , Not IT Gone are the days when industry practitioners could find jobs with a simple training .

High technical requirements 、 High requirements for academic qualifications 、 High requirements for experience . This is the whole thing right now IT Industry practitioners can feel .

But at any time , Having technology is never worrying about work , When the requirements become higher , Need to constantly improve themselves .

You choose to enter IT industry , I chose such a path , We must keep learning to keep going . To put it bluntly , In the current era of soaring Technology , Which industry does not need to learn ？

People with good skills , Whether winter is cold or not , Have the value of your existence , You are a scarce talent . And that kind of routine on weekdays 、 Living in ignorance , People who don't invest in learning , Is the most anxious .

To interview , Except for a little bit , Nothing ！

There is a characteristic of this position , In actual work, manual testing is mainly used , The least important thing in the interview is the manual testing experience . The most important thing to pay attention to during the interview is whether you have automation experience 、 Do you have any experience in interface testing 、 Do you have performance experience . No, ？ bye .

good , Hurry to mend Automation 、 Virtual a performance test project .

I think these companies must have done a smooth job in automated testing , After entering, I found that it was mainly manual .

test , It's such a magical post . Always struggle with automated testing 、 Performance testing , The main content of the work is still manual testing .

Let me put it this way , The so-called agile development of domestic enterprises , In fact, it is the early software workshop of software development ！ It is the product of the Internet era . In the past, we mostly talked about quality 、 It's a standard. 、 Is the specification 、 Is management . However , Internet age , The team that can make software at the fastest speed is a good team .

Software formula in the Internet era ： Speed > cost > quality , from CMMI We are from the past , Understand the meaning better . When no one in the team puts quality first , The status of testing will naturally decline . And in the Internet age , Speed is king .

No matter what occupation , Want to survive in various times , We need to find our own position .

At this point , Software testing is a position that serves software development , While giving consideration to quality, we also need to find ways to improve the development efficiency of the team .

Automated testing is the long cherished wish of testers , It is also a sharp weapon that can better serve the team . But automated testing is also a double-edged sword , While bringing convenience to the team, it also increases the cost for the team . Hover between convenience and cost , When convenience outweighs cost, automation generates , Automation dies when cost is greater than convenience .

And how to grasp this , It is difficult to . So automated testing has always been thunderous , Raindrops are small. . This situation will continue .

Now testing is not just about finding bug The problem of , Nor is it the problem of writing automated test scripts , It's not about running a few performance cases . Testing in the current IT In the industry , To occupy a more important position , We also need to find our own position .

Personally, I always think , Testing should be a service-oriented position , Improve the efficiency and quality of the team by serving the development team , The reverse is to test the improvement of their status .

Ling Ling scribbled a lot , That test is still able to eat ?

What about him , It's learning ！ Improving yourself is the king ！