Directly throw out my conclusion: manual business testing has no future.
My personal suggestion is to quickly jump out of business testing, learn the code immediately, and take the direction of automated testing. In the current trend, business testing needs to be automated.
In order to convince everyone of my point of view, this article will elaborate on the following aspects:
1. What is business testing?
2. What are the disadvantages of business testing?
3. Introduction to the current software development, where is the way out for business testing?
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Obviously, when you start to question "whether manual pure business testing has a way out in the testing industry", you must have the answer in your heart.
1. A brief introduction to business testing
Business tests often exist in: banking, securities, insurance, finance, real estate, etc.
The stronger the project in the professional field, the greater the proportion of business testing will usually be.
Such businesses often have the following characteristics:
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Strong professional field, rich scene in professional field,
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The business process is long and complex, and it pays more attention to satisfying the business.
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The number of users is small, but professional and single,
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Pay more attention to function realization, and often pay less attention to experience such as UI interaction.
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Second, purely manual testing, business testing has no future.
1. Let's take a look at the work of pure manual testing.
1) The goal of pure manual testing: to find defects in the system and ensure that the test requirements match the test goals.
2) The workflow of pure manual testing: a detailed understanding of the test plan, including test strategy, environmental requirements, test progress, functions to be tested, resources and responsibilities, deliverables, standards and tools used, etc. After this, the tester writes the test cases describing the steps and expectations.
3) Handling of bugs found in pure manual testing: compare the actual results with the expected ones, and if they do not match, record the defects in the management tool (such as Zen Road) and notify the R&D personnel to fix them. When a fix is developed and the issue status is marked as resolved, the tester asks to verify whether the issue is now fixed.
For everyone to better understand the pure manual testing work, the flow chart is attached as follows:
2. Manual testing often has the following disadvantages in business testing:
• The complexity of the software is high, and the regression range is evaluated repeatedly, resulting in a waste of time and cost. The evaluation is often inaccurate, and it is possible to perform regression tests on modules related to this function when iterating a small function.
• Limited by the requirements put forward by the business side, the entire R&D team often has a one-sided understanding of the overall requirements.
• Strong professionalism, resulting in no actual experience in this field, only satisfying the test on the functional process, and having no idea about abnormal scenarios.
• The test coverage is incomplete, and often only a single scenario can be returned to ensure the smooth flow of the overall process.
• It often fails to meet actual business needs. Some functions developed do not meet business needs. People say that "no one uses it at all".
• With the enrichment of usage scenarios after going online, there are many online problems.
3. Introduction to the current software development, where is the way out for business testing?
On the whole, "business testing is the core of test engineers and one of the most basic capabilities in the testing industry." However, the development of today's software industry has entered a new stage, with the following three characteristics:
1) Cloud-based applications, programs are becoming more and more popular.
2) Users prefer customized services, and business applications are under constant pressure to meet ever-increasing customer expectations.
3) The development team will use agile R&D to keep up with changing customer needs, continuously testing and monitoring updates.
So in the current stage of software industry development, automation plays a vital role.
The above three characteristics, we will expand in detail next:
1. "Cloud" in the new business test mode
In order to meet the daily production requirements of most professional users and thus carry out highly customized development, enterprises have chosen to go to the "cloud": using intelligence as a platform carrier to provide resources on demand on a large scale.
Going to the "cloud" can indeed drive process innovation and business innovation, and become a new profit growth point for enterprises, so various enterprises have launched SaaS-based application platforms (SaaS is the abbreviation of Software-as-a-Service, meaning software and services, that is, providing software services over the Internet).
2. Users prefer customized services, and SaaS meets their needs
Applications on SaaS support application configuration, and each customer can customize the application to the extent of its design according to a set of predefined configuration options, so the business complexity is higher and the iteration speed is faster.
SaaS applications are typically updated more frequently than traditional software due to several factors:
￮ The application is hosted centrally, so updates are decided and executed by the provider, not the customer.
￮ The application has only one configuration, making development testing faster.
￮ Application vendors do not have to spend resources updating and maintaining retroactive versions of the software because there is only one version.
￮ Application vendors can access all customer data, speeding up design and regression testing.
￮ Service providers have access to user behavior analytics within the application, making it easier to identify areas for improvement.
To meet the frequent updates of SaaS applications, the production and research team needs agile R&D...
3. Using agile research and development, the way out of business testing lies in automated testing
To support accelerated function delivery, production and research teams need agile software development, which requires a set of software development tools and practices to support frequent software releases.
On the testing side, pure functional testing has been unable to keep up with the requirements of agile development because of its low efficiency.
Therefore, learning code to master automated testing, and using automated testing to do business testing will be the way out for business testing.
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Fourth, introduce manual testing, let's introduce automated testing work:
1. Automated testing job responsibilities:
￮ Write, design and execute automated tests by creating scripts that automatically run test functions;
￮ Cover as much core code as possible;
￮ Prioritize test scenarios and create execution plans to implement those scenarios;
￮ Write documents for the automation process, including test plans, test procedures and test cases;
￮ Build a test automation framework;
￮ Logging and logging errors in the tracking system;
￮ Conduct continuous integration.
2. Skills required for automation:
￮ Common computer languages required by different automated testing technologies: Python, Java, etc.;
￮ Automated testing tools: Selenium, TestComplete, Katalon Studio and Ranorex;
￮ Mobile automated testing tools for Android, iOS and cross-platform;
￮ API testing tools that require strong coding skills to create tests: REST Assured, RestSharp, jMeter, etc.;
￮ Continuous integration tools Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo, etc.
3. Benefits of automated testing
In the correctness verification of a large amount of data, since multi-threaded concurrency can be simulated, automation has the following two advantages:
1) Can improve test coverage,
2) Improve test accuracy,
3) It can greatly save the cost of manpower input.
Because of these three advantages, automation is unimpeded in the field of software testing. At present, when testing job applications, automated testing has changed from a "bonus item" in previous years to a "just needed". The testing employment environment has changed
5. How to systematically learn automated testing
Supplementary text below: "I don't like code very much, so should I continue to do business testing, or change careers?"
When you lament that the skills to be mastered by automation are both familiar and unfamiliar, this proves that they have gradually been marginalized in the testing field and become "outsiders" at any time.
Now that you have already engaged in this profession, why should you try it and not go deeper? Although you said that you are not too cold about the code! But in the current environment, we still rely on ourselves, break through ourselves, and create greater glories.
It's not that you don't know whether there is a way out in the professional field you are currently engaged in, but it is difficult to make up your mind, which is why most people like you are confused. Without a good learning method, one cannot study systematically.
Learn a little automation today, learn a little performance tomorrow, and learn a little front-end the day after tomorrow. "Complex information" is a big headache. In today's refined division of labor, each industry is actually being subdivided continuously, learning a little from the east and learning from the west. There is a wide range of learning and miscellaneous knowledge, and there is no part that can be deeply penetrated. If you don't know what to use or how to use after learning it, it's easy to go from getting started to giving up.
You need to study systematically, and have professional people analyze the knowledge points. The following series of videos are worth your systematic study.
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