Recently, a 28-year-old old classmate contacted me because he was fired by the company and asked me to talk, so he wrote this article.
He graduated with a second degree in 2014. In my impression, he is very lazy, doesn’t like to study, and his major is not good. Before graduation, he didn’t find a suitable job, so he went directly to start a business, milk tea shop, trusteeship, sales, everything is there anyway. I did it , and spent a few years in a daze after graduation. In 2015, the Internet industry was very popular. He wanted to go back to the IT industry, so he contacted me. I recommended software testing for him, and he also listened to me. It is recommended to apply to a training institution to learn software testing. The learning was very bad, but there was a big gap at the time, and he still got involved in a company. After getting familiar with the company's business, his coding skills were too poor, and he was not qualified for automation at all, so he did it manually. test.
I have been doing it until October last year, 9.5 before leaving the job, job function test, because the company laid off employees, now people don't want to just do a little bit of testing at all, plus I don't like learning, so it's okay to interview outside for two months All kinds of bumps.
At present, he is bumping into walls everywhere and sometimes goes out to run Didi, deliver food, and barely maintain the expenses of the family, and he is also in a state of making ends meet.
In fact, for many functional testing positions, a bunch of people are laid off between 30 and 28, or change careers due to family reasons.
The most unavoidable word in middle age is responsibility. Middle-aged people have no one to share the responsibility for him. Parents need to take care of them, and children are not yet capable. This kind of experience is unimaginable until middle-aged. If you don’t have a good career plan now, how do you deal with crises in the future? “The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and the waves before die on the beach.” Once a joke that made people laugh, it has now become a true portrayal of the software testing industry. Due to the low barriers to entry and high salaries in the software testing industry, there are constantly fresh blood washing over the "forerunners" in the software testing industry, which has brought us great pressure.
If you want to break the situation, you can only let go of your figure, accumulate experience points honestly, start to develop your work ability steadily, and regularly measure how much salary you are worth. Don't be easily fooled by the halo, have a clear understanding of yourself, advanced automated testing is the best way to break the situation.
The above is not an excuse for people who don't want to learn automated testing. Instead, I feel that the testers should not lose themselves in the work. At present, as far as the large amount of recruitment information is concerned, if you want a high salary, you will need the following points:
Know a programming language, understand automated testing, understand Appium operations, element positioning, operations, waiting, sliding, etc., in-depth explanations of PO, unittest, yaml, configuration files, test reports, etc., based on keyword-driven, Pytest and jenkins continuous integration Complete the design and development of App testing framework, testing tools, such as performance testing tool loadrunner, automated testing tools selenium, Appium.
As someone who has been here, I also hope that you will avoid some detours. Here I will share with you some relevant information about automated testing, hoping to bring you help on the way forward. If you need it, click below to get it.
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As an automated software tester, I would like to share some of my summaries and summaries of technology over the years, and share my notes on the skills that an advanced tester needs to master. I hope it can help those who are interested in technology. On the road all the way to black friends!
Let me share the knowledge architecture diagram of the development direction of software testing engineers that I have compiled, which may be the most complete in 2021.
1. Automated testing must know Python programming technology
2. Web automation testing technical content
3. Technical content of APP automated testing
4. Postman test tool topic
5. Technical content of interface automation testing
6. Ability to build automated testing framework
7. Continuous integration
8. Jmeter performance test
9. APP performance test
10. Use of Fiddler packet capture tool
11. TCP/IP protocol
12. Linux system operation
13. MySQL database
14. RobotFramework automated testing framework
15. Cross-platform automated testing framework Airtest
The above is a technical advancement path map for full-stack test engineers that I compiled . Complete the construction of such a technology stack. It can be said that this process will make you miserable, but as long as you get through it. Later career will be much easier. As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning, as long as you take the first step, you are already halfway to success. The ancients said, "If you don't accumulate steps , you can't reach a thousand miles." When you look back on this journey after completion, you will definitely be moved. a lot.
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Finally, I would like to thank everyone who has read my article carefully. Seeing the fans’ growth and attention all the way, there is always a need for reciprocity. Although it is not a very valuable thing, you can take it away if you need it:
These materials should be the most comprehensive and complete preparation warehouse for friends who want to advance [automated testing]. This warehouse has also accompanied me through the most difficult journey, and I hope it can help you too! Everything should be done as early as possible, especially in the technical industry, we must improve our technical skills. I hope to be helpful……
