Some years ago many companies preferred not to have separate test engineers in the project team. But this I have not seen in past 2-3 years in my career. As now all the companies have a clear idea of the need of the QA and test engineers. Also the QA and testers rolls are now concrete and there is no confusion.
Unfortunately, still I find the perception of testing as a inferior role in some developers mind. This “anyone can do” attitude should be removed from those people’s mind. Lots of companies hiring “any” skilled personals to do this job and eventually suffering from the lost of money and time. Instead of hiring the junk of testers they should hire some gifted testers who can do there job beyond the developer’s limitations.
If Managers and management remove this inferiority thinking from their mind then they can hire these gifted testers in their organization. Such testers can do complex job well, can find complex bugs and further more can add some procedures to the way of doing the routine jobs in order to make it more structured.
This is what I expect in coming years; let me know your opinions.
Posted Under: Software Testing, QA skill, skilled testers, Tester vs. Developer
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ya thats right, Basicaly people should remove this anyone can do attitute from their mind..
And tester vs developer war is never ending!
What other skills for Software testing?
No doubt it is always evergreen field in future,developers n mgt.have 2 think over that.
I strongly agree to this Content.
Each Developer should get this thought out of their Mind.
Testers are more or less equal to Developers .
It’s right but we do not blame developers that they think testers as inferior. Testing is an art and anyone can’t do this. Persons with analytical mind and strong understanding of software can do it better. Otherwise initiatives may go invain….
Plz tell me
senarios , moduls, & units
what is the Unit ?
what is Differens between scenario & modul & Unit?
what is new atometion tools in testing area ? how we lern this tools ?
Ahhh the joys of being considered inferior and being underestimated. When you find a defect that is not really a bug… it’s excused because “you just don’t understand software”. When you find a really obscure defect that can bring the software to it’s knees… it’s considered “lucky” and you just happened to “stumble” across it. But most testers know that it doesn’t really matter what people think…. as long as we keep testing and keep pointing out the things that look wrong. The end result of better software is the goal. At the end of the day, how we got there and who made it that way doesn’t really mean a whole lot.
What is the difference in roles as a QA and a Tester???
The very basic roles and responsibilities for these 2 is as follows:
QA : The role is to assist in the Quality Assurance of a project and are not limited to only testing projects in an organization.
Tester/QC: The role is to ensure the Quality of the project thru the Quality Check i.e., testing.
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Developers should remove this point “Anyone can do ” from their mind…
Developers cant do testing on their Application as like testers effectively…bcoz developers dont like to find more bugs in their coding & always they like to look their application in positive manner only….so tester only the king in testing the application at every direction…..
Why there is fight between a developer and a tester, they both should work together hand in hand for the company’s progress and there success too. both are doing there jobs. In case if the developer thinks he is superior then the Tester or QA, he should not leave a single bug in his development. If any developer on this earth makes an application bug free then even according to me he is superior then a QA or Tester.
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