Saturday, December 30, 2017

Tips and Hints for the Next Generation Tester

http://www.unicomlearning.com/2016/Agile_Testing_and_Test_Automation_Colombo/#close

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Today, a software tester is playing an important role in product delivery and also in product quality. Various testing methods and techniques are adapted to offer a product / project quality. Many of the tools available are used by the testers to achieve this objective and also ease the life of a software tester.

The role of software tester has now changed. This is not the traditional "Software Tester" what you thought. If you want to be on the edge of your company's software testing hierarchy then being only a software tester who creates test cases and run them will never make an experienced person to grow further. The first step to be taken to go away from the traditional tests is you should not be addicted only for the test cases. Write test cases and execute, but go little further. People today go beyond. They think out of box. Once you start exploring more then you become a more successful tester. Ask yourself "Apart from the written test cases, how you can go wrong." Go beyond this level of testing. You need to look at the dark side of the application where testing was not done by testing scripts. The person who digs into these areas and discovers errors is the real tester. Testing will be a psychological phenomenon. 

Testers think differently, but most of us adhere to the traditional set of rules of evidence and rules issued in the testing industry. If we tried to test a login screen then all will stick into a traditional set of test scenarios. We have to go beyond what they always say. Sad story is most do not do it but if that barrier is broken. You are the next generation tester... You are the person who goes beyond where no one had imagined.

This can be considered as an advise on what will be demanded by the next generation Software Tester and furthermore, think beyond and look at the areas where we can streamline our test processors. Think beyond its limits, the technology is available around you. It is the skill needed to develop to take these building blocks and build a solution.


A mind map of common bugs in mobile applications created by myself....