After a long time, I met a good friend of mine who is looking for the job change. He was quite frustrated and exhausted from his earlier job of software developer and want to switch to the testing field as he believes it was an easy work to do at least from the previous one.
He asked me for guiding him to get a tester’s job. Out of curiosity, I asked why he wanted to go in the testing field rather, to stay in the development.
So, instead of answering my question, he started questioning and making me believe that software testing is not easier than software development?
What do you think about it? Did you believe that software testing is easier than software development?
I think most of you definitely not agree.
Let me tell you first what exactly software testing is.
Software testing is the process of evaluating a software development process and the system components to find bugs and defects and fulfill all the user requirements and at the end deliver high quality error free product to the customers.
Software Testing is quite an effort-full task to be performed than software development. There are certain reasons behind that:
- Complete testing is impossible: For a tester during testing software applications, it was required to go through different test combinations and scenarios that need to be taken into consideration to perform an efficient testing. It is not possible in real time to test all the possible cases with a given time constraints. The main focus laid is on to satisfy the end user requirements and the business specifications. This is the harder task for the testers to do.
- Quality assurance: Sometimes it was pre assumed that the Quality assurance is the complete responsibility of the testing team irrespective of the contribution of the development department. Tester handles all the mess created in the code by the developers and check it using all case scenarios. It is quite a tedious task to do for them. Testing cannot be accountable or responsible alone for maintaining the quality standards.
- Less involvement, more expectation: There is no involvement of testers during the software development life cycle. They are not included in finalizing the project requirements or the other necessary decisions made during software development. But the expectations from the testers during testing is always high- they should cover all the test case scenarios, complete testing one time, handles the bugs in an efficient manner and at the same time generate test reports.
- Performance and interoperability issues: When an application is designed to be used by many users at the same time, then it is difficult for the testers to test the application under those conditions to ensure that each user should get the desired experience. And those conditions are sometimes hard to predict, recreate and test.
- Product cannot be completely bug free: Testers put a lot of efforts in defining coverage, identifying risk factors and in executing numerous test scenarios and to make the software bug free. It is quite a troublesome task for the testers to make the product error free completely.
The Bottom Line
In my opinion, software testing is not only the important task to be done but it’s equally challenging and difficult for the testers to perform efficiently.
Software testing is a critical skill to be found in a person and at the same time, it is also a passion-driven profession. Whether you choose it by chance or by choice, you will always excel if you want to.
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