You can understand software testing as a role of "quality inspector" in software engineering. His purpose is only one: to ensure that the application software products delivered to users can run accurately and smoothly. I also saw that some people mistakenly understand software testing as programmers. It is necessary to popularize science here, which is not the case!
In the industry, everyone judges whether a person is a programmer or not, in fact, it mainly depends on whether he has the ability to "code". So the accurate description should be like this: development engineers belong to programmers, but test engineers are not absolute, and they should be subdivided into test engineers who do not have the ability to code. (For example, white box testing can be regarded as a programmer, but pure functional testing is not)
A standard product team usually includes positions such as product manager, back-end development engineer, software test engineer, front-end engineer and UI designer, and the responsibility of software testing in the product team is to conduct targeted testing on the code of the development engineer— —After the test activity starts, the tester is required to follow up the corresponding software testing work in time after the development engineer has finished typing the code. All bugs found have been fixed.
As a digression, in fact, from the initial origin of testing, perhaps he can be included in the category of programmers, because at the beginning of the birth of computer applications, the work of testing was concurrently undertaken by development engineers, but it was followed by social development. The division of labor is becoming more and more detailed, and the test is separated from the programmer alone.
From this point of view, software testing does not have too high requirements for code capabilities, but focuses more on finding and fixing bugs. As for the salary level of test engineers, here is also a set of more intuitive data (as shown in Figure ↓), from which it can be seen that: those with a salary of 10K and above accounted for 20%; those with a salary of 8-10K accounted for 39.73%
For students who have changed careers with zero foundation, getting an offer of 10k or more is really a very cost-effective career investment. From the perspective of return on investment, an annualized ROI of 5 may be enough for other partners to citric acid for a while. However, this kind of students will only be a minority after all, and the 8~10k students still account for the largest proportion (nearly 40%). They are not satisfied with the job content and salary of traditional industries, so they come here especially for the Internet. After 3 months of study time, the increase from 4k5k to 8k9k is a good ending.
In addition, the form of employment this year is not the same as in the past, everyone should be more cautious about changing careers to software testing! Although the ability to test codes is not high, you still need to master a programming language as much as possible, so that you will find that you often have a comparative advantage in the subsequent employment interview process!
Still the same sentence: Changing careers is no small matter!
Students who are interested in learning software testing also look forward to further communication with you. Career change consultation, career planning, learning experience, job recommendation... some opinions and guidance hope to help you land successfully!